Southern Patwin language

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The Southern Patwin language is an extinct Wintuan language once spoken by the Patwin people of north-central California.

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Label Occurrences
Southern Patwin language canonical 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Wintuan language
extinct language
indigenous language of California
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalContext Patwin traditional culture
documentedBy linguistic field notes
documentedIn 20th century
endangeredStatus extinct
ethnicGroup Patwin people NERFINISHED
glottocode sout2955
glottologName Southern Patwin NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Southern Patwin NERFINISHED
Southern Patwin Wintun NERFINISHED
hasDialects Napa NERFINISHED
Suisun NERFINISHED
Ululato
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative
head-marking
hasMorphologicalFeature case-marking on nouns
verbal affixation for aspect
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-3 ptw
languageBranch Northern Wintuan NERFINISHED
languageEndangermentCause colonial displacement
language shift to English
languageFamily Wintuan
languageOf Patwin traditional territory
partOf Wintuan languages NERFINISHED
region north-central California
relatedTo Nomlaki language NERFINISHED
Northern Patwin language
Wintu language NERFINISHED
spokenIn Napa Valley NERFINISHED
Sacramento Valley NERFINISHED
Suisun Bay area
status extinct
subfamilyOf Patwin language
Southern Wintuan NERFINISHED
usedBy Patwin communities along lower Sacramento River
usedFor ceremonial speech
everyday communication in Patwin villages
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Wintuan languages hasPart Southern Patwin language