Supporting and celebrating global linguistic diversity
Classification: Algic
·awakening
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Chillula, Mita, Pekwan, Rikwa, Sugon, Weitspek, Weitspekan |
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Algic, Ritwan |
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ISO 639-3 |
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yur |
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Information from: “Archie Thompson dies at 93; Yurok elder kept tribal tongue alive” . Romney, Lee (2013) LA Times
Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
3000-4500
US Census (2000) lists 279 who use the language in the home. Ethnic population: 3,000 to 4,500 possibly (SIL 1982).
(Unchanged 2016.)
Northwest California
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
4,000+
Only a dozen or fewer elderly people have full first-language fluency in a combined tribal enrollment of well over 4,000, although there are perhaps three times as many semi-speakers and passive speakers, all middle aged or older
Yurok is the traditional language of the Yurok Tribe of northwestern California and of three nearby independent rancherias of Yurok heritage, Reseghini, Big Lagoon, and Trinidad (Cher-Ae).