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Kings River Yokuts

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6413014 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kings River was a dialect of the Yokutsan language of California.

Dialects

There were four dialects of Kings River, Chukaymina, Michahay, Ayitcha (a.k.a. Kocheyali), and Choynimni.

References

External links

Kings River Yokuts, California Language Archive Archived 2013-05-07 at the Wayback Machine

Yokut tales

"Yokuts languages". Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. 2010.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kings River Yokuts” as language. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kings, River and Yokuts can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as language. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6413014. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kings River Yokuts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.