Yawdanchi (also spelled Yaudanchi) is a dialect of

Tule-Kaweah Yokuts Tule-Kaweah is a Yokuts dialect of California. Wukchumni, the last surviving dialect, had only one native or fluent speaker, Marie Wilcox (both native and fluent), who compiled a dictionary of the language.

that was historically spoken by the Yawdanchi Yokuts people living along the

Tule River The Tule River, also called Rio de San Pedro or Rio San Pedro, is a river in Tulare County in the U.S. state of California. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada east of Porterville and consists of three forks, North, Middle and South. The N ...

in the

Tulare Lake Tulare Lake () (Spanish: ''Laguna de Tache'', Yokuts: ''Pah-áh-su'') is a freshwater dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. After Lake Cahuilla disappeared in the 17th century ...

Basin of California. The Yawdanchi dialect is closely related to the Wiikchamni dialect. Yawdanchi was documented by A. L. Kroeber who published an article on the grammar and phonology of the dialect in 1907.

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