Palewyami Yokuts
Yokutsan language of California
Palewyami, also known as Altinin and Poso Creek Yokuts, was a major dialect of the Yokuts language of California, or possibly a distinct but closely related language.
Palewyami was spoken in Kern County, 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), pp. 385-396, Missoula, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 10, 1993, ISBN 1-879763-10-9
External links
Palewyami at California Language Archive Archived 2012-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
"Yokuts languages". Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. 2010.
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