Endangered Languages Project - Washo

Washo

^{[aka Washoe, Washoa]}

Classification: Isolate

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Washoe, Washoa
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, North American
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		was
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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

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Several dozen
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Several dozen fluent first-language speakers, all middle-aged or elderly, in a total population of over 1,500, divided among four small reservations in both Nevada and California.

PLACES: USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken by members of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, whose traditional homeland centers on Lake Tahoe in the High Sierra.

PLACES: USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Nevada, California

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10 (Unchanged 2016.)
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,500
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(1998 J. Brook). "Several dozen fully fluent speakers" (Golla 2007).

DATE OF INFO: 1998

Scripts (Writing system): Latin

PLACES: USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "California-Nevada border southeast of Lake Tahoe."

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Several dozen
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Many adults and children have become second-language speakers or semi-speakers. (Golla 2007:90)

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: The Washo Tribe has a successful immersion school (kindergaten-8th grade)

PLACES: USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Nevada, California

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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38.9226,-119.7256

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Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO