Palewyami, also known as Altinin and Poso Creek Yokuts, was a

Yokuts The Yokuts (previously known as MariposasPowell, 1891:90–91.) are an ethnic group of Native Americans native to central California. Before European contact, the Yokuts consisted of up to 60 tribes speaking several related languages. ''Yokuts ...

dialect of California. Palewyami was spoken in

Kern County Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield. Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county sp ...

, along Poso Creek. The language has not been spoken since the 1930s.

References

Sources

* Gamble, Geoffrey, ''Yokuts Imperative and Demonstrative Pronouns'', American Indian Linguistics and Ethnography in Honor of Laurence C. Thompson (eds., Anthony Mattina and

Timothy Montler Timothy Montler is an American academic and linguist. Montler is a professor of linguistics at the University of North Texas, as of 2013. He has worked to preserve the Klallam language since 1990. Montler collaborated with Adeline Smith, a Lower ...

), pp. 385-396, Missoula, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 10, 1993,

External links

Palewyami at California Language Archive
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Palewyami Yokuts Yokutsan languages Extinct languages of North America History of Kern County, California