Tule-Kaweah Yokuts facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
Region	San Joaquin Valley, California
Ethnicity	Yokuts people
Native speakers	0  (2021)eth
Language family	Yok-Utian ? Yokuts Nim Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
Dialects	Wukchumni Yawdanchi Bokninuwad
Distribution 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. “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, Wukchumni (Wikchamni), Yawdanchi (a.k.a. Nutaa), and Bokninuwad.