Endangered indigenous language of northern California
Patwin
Southern Wintun
Native to
United States
Region
Colusa, Lake, Napa, Solano, and Yolo Counties, northern California
Ethnicity
Patwin
Native speakers
1 (as of 2021)[1][2]
Revival
Being taught in schools and learned by adults[3]
Language family
Wintuan
Southern
Patwin
Dialects
Hill Patwin
River Patwin
?Southern Patwin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
pwi
Glottolog
patw1250
ELP
Patwin
Patwin is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Patwin (Patween) is a critically endangered Wintuan language of Northern California. As of 2021, there was one documented first language speaker of Patwin.[1][4] As of 2010, Patwin language classes were taught at the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (formerly Rumsey Rancheria) tribal school (Dubin 2010).
Patwin has two (excl. Southern Patwin) or three (incl. Southern Patwin) dialects: "River Patwin (or Valley Patwin) was traditionally spoken along the Sacramento River in Colusa County ... Hill Patwin, was spoken in the plains and foothills to the west."[4][5]
Southern Patwin became extinct shortly after contact. It is very poorly attested, and may be a separate Southern Wintuan language (Mithun 1999).
As of 2012, the Tewe Kewe Cultural Center of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has "a California Indian Library Collection and an extensive Patwin language and history research section."[6]
^ abLawyer, Lewis. A Grammar of Patwin. Bloomington: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
^Golla, Victor (2011). California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4.
^Lawyer, Lewis C. (25 June 2012). "Request for New Language Code Element in ISO 639-3" (PDF). ISO 639-3 Registration Authority. p. 2.
^ ab
"Patwin – Survey of California and Other Indian Languages". Retrieved 30 August 2012.
^
"Quail Ridge Reserve - Human History Patwin". Archived from the original on 16 November 2008. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
^"Cultural Resources – Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation". Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
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