Extinct Native American language formerly spoken in California
Wintu
Northern Wintun
wintʰuːh
Native to
United States
Region
Shasta County, Trinity County, California
Ethnicity
Wintu people
Native speakers
Unknown[1]
Revival
2011
Language family
Wintuan
Northern
Wintu
Language codes
ISO 639-3
wnw
Glottolog
nucl1651
ELP
Wintu
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Person
Wintʰu
People
Wintʰun
Language
Wintʰuh
Country
Wintʰu Pom
Wintu/wɪnˈtuː/[2] is a Wintu language which was spoken by the Wintu people of Northern California.
It was the northernmost member of the Wintun family of languages.
The Wintun family of languages was spoken in the Shasta County, Trinity County, Sacramento River Valley and in adjacent areas up to the Carquinez Strait of San Francisco Bay.
Wintun is a branch of the hypothetical Penutian language phylum or stock of languages of western North America, more closely related to four other families of Penutian languages spoken in California: Maiduan, Miwokan, Yokuts, and Costanoan.[3]
The Wintu were in contact also with adjacent speakers of Hokan languages such as Southeastern, Eastern, and Northeastern Pomo; Athabaskan languages such as Wailaki and Hupa; Yukian languages such as Yuki and Wappo; and other Penutian languages such as Miwok, Maidu, Yokuts, and Saclan.[citation needed]
Besides these contiguous languages surrounding the Wintun area wider contacts with speakers of Russian, Spanish, and English.
As of 2011, Headman Marc Franco of the Winnemem Wintu has been working with the Indigenous Language Institute on revitalization of the Winnemem Wintu language.[4]
^Golla (2011)
^Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
^Golla 2011: 128–168
^"Indigenous Language Activists - Living Tongues Institute For Endangered Languages". Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
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