Tulare Lake Yokuts

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Tulare Lake Yokuts is a now-extinct dialect of the Yokutsan language family once spoken by Indigenous people around California’s historic Tulare Lake region.

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Label Occurrences
Tulare Lake Yokuts canonical 1
Tulare Lake Yokuts people 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Yokutsan language dialect
extinct language variety
associatedWith San Joaquin Valley
Tulare Lake
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicity Tulare Lake Yokuts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tulare Lake Yokuts people
extinction no longer spoken as a native language
hasAncestor Proto-Yokutsan (reconstructed)
hasCulturalRole language of traditional stories and oral history of Tulare Lake Yokuts people
hasDocumentation linguistic field notes and wordlists by early 20th-century researchers (limited)
hasEndonym a Yokutsan name now largely lost or uncertain in the literature
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language (as with other Yokutsan languages)
hasType indigenous language of North America
historicalRegion historic Tulare Lake basin
isDialectOf Yokuts
isPartOf indigenous languages of California
languageBranch Southern Valley Yokuts
surface form: Valley Yokuts (classification used by some linguists)
languageFamily Southern Valley Yokuts
surface form: Yokutsan
languageStatus no known fluent speakers remain
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Central Valley
surface form: Central Valley of California
partOf Yokutsan languages
surface form: Yokutsan language family
region Tulare Basin
surface form: Tulare Lake region
spokenBy Indigenous peoples of California
Yokuts people
state California, United States
surface form: California
status extinct
subfamilyOf Yokutsan languages
usedFor oral communication
writingSystem Latin script (in linguistic transcription)

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Yokutsan languages hasDialect Tulare Lake Yokuts
Tulare Lake Yokuts ethnicity Tulare Lake Yokuts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tulare Lake Yokuts people