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Palewyami Yokuts

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Palewyami
Poso Creek, Altinin
RegionSan Joaquin Valley, California
EthnicityYokuts
Extinct1930s[1]
Yok-Utian ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in Yokuts [yok])
Glottologpale1254

Palewyami, also known as Altinin and Poso Creek Yokuts, was a major dialect of the Yokuts language of California, or possibly a distinct but closely related language.[2]

Palewyami was spoken in Kern County, along Poso Creek. The language has not been spoken since the 1930s.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Victor Golla (2007), Atlas of the World's Languages, p. 21
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Palewyami Yokuts". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Sources

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  • Gamble, Geoffrey, Yokuts Imperative and Demonstrative Pronouns, American Indian Linguistics and Ethnography in Honor of Laurence C. Thompson (eds., Anthony Mattina and Timothy Montler), pp. 385-396, Missoula, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 10, 1993, ISBN 1-879763-10-9
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