ELP ID
16054
ELP Language
Yokuts
Speaker Number
10-99
Public Comment
The Poso Creek, Buena Vista, and Gashowu subgroups have been extinct since the 1930s. Fewer than ten speakers of the Wikchamni (locally referred to as ''Wukchumne") dialect of the Tule-Kaweah subgroup remain, most of them living on the Tule River Reservation near Porterville. Half a dozen elderly speakers or partial speakers of the Choynimni ("Choinumne") dialect of the Kings River subgroup live in scattered locations in and around their traditional homeland. There are speakers of at least three Valley Yokuts dialects, including up to twenty-five fluent and semifluent speakers of Yawelmani ("Yowlumne") on the Tule River Reservation, a few speakers of Chukchansi at the Picayune and Table Mountain Rancherias in the foothills northeast of Fresno, and a few speakers of Tachi at the Santa Rosa Rancheria near Lemoore.
Source
Tonal Inversion in Geji and Pelu
Preferred
Off
Speaker Number Text
45 speakers and semispeakers?
Speaker Number Range
10-99