30439 Panamint 10-99 No monolingual speakers of Panamint remain. The "pure" Eastern and Western dialects from Lone Pine and Beatty are almost extinct. The majority of no more than twenty speakers speak the Death Valley variety, and all or elderly. There are very few, if any, passive speakers, since there is a strong tendency to marry outside the tribe (p. 175). California Indian Languages On <20 10-99