Tule-Kaweah is a Yokuts dialect of California.

Wukchumni The Wukchumni () are a Yokuts tribe of California with about 200 members, residing on the Tule River Reservation. 3000 years ago, they broke off from the main Yokuts group and settled in the region of the east fork of the Kaweah River. History App ...

, the last surviving dialect, had only one native or fluent speaker,

Marie Wilcox Marie Desma Wilcox (November 24, 1933 – September 25, 2021) Als, October 9, 2021. was a Native American who was the last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, which is a Yokutsan indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaw ...

(both native and fluent), who compiled a dictionary of the language.‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’

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, 19 Aug 2014. “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, is about her dictionary. She also recorded an oral version of the dictionary. Together with her daughter Jennifer, Marie Wilcox taught weekly classes to interested members of their tribe. Marie Wilcox died on September 25, 2021.

Dialects

There were three subdialects of Tule-Kaweah, ''

(Wikchamni), Yawdanchi'' ('' Nutaa''), and ''Bokninuwad''.

References

External links

Tule-Kaweah at California Language Archive

Comparison of sounds in Wikchamni and other Yokutsan languages {{Languages of California Yokutsan languages Endangered Yokutsan languages