Hometwoli (also known as Humetwadi) was a dialect of

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spoken in the southern portion of the Tulare Basin of

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near Kern Lake. Out of the group of Yokuts dialects designated by Kroeber as "Foothill Yokuts," Hometwoli was reportedly the most divergent.

Name

Hometwoli means "Southerners" and is a variant of the term "Homtinin," used by multiple Yokuts peoples to refer to their southern neighbors.

Phonology

Hometwoli is the only dialect of Buena Vista Yokuts with central vowel

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Counting system

Hometwoli varies from other

Yokutsan languages Yokuts, formerly known as Mariposa, is an endangered language spoken in the interior of Northern and Central California in and around the San Joaquin Valley by the Yokuts people. The speakers of Yokuts were severely affected by disease, missio ...

in its word for "six," which derives from the same

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in all other dialects. The Hometwoli word for "six" shows similarities with the word for "nine" in other Yokutsan dialects and may suggest the presence of a base six system.

References

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