Southern Valley Yokuts is a dialect network within the
Valley Yokuts
Valley Yokuts is a dialect cluster of the Yokutsan language family of California.
Chukchansi, which is still spoken natively, has language classes and a preschool for children. It is also taught at a local elementary school. Though there are no ...
division of the
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 ...
spoken in the
Central Valley of
California
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.
Among the dialects grouped under the label Southern Valley Yokuts are
Wechihi,
Tachi
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,
Telamni,
Chunut,
Wowol,
Yawelmani
Yawelmani Yokuts (also spelled Yowlumne and Yauelmani) is an endangered dialect of Southern Valley Yokuts historically spoken by the Yokuts living along the Kern River north of Kern Lake in the Central Valley of California. Today, most Yawelma ...
,
Nutunutu,
Wo'lasi,
Choynok, and
Koyeti.
References
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Yokutsan languages