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Yokuts
Yokutsan, Mariposa
RegionSan Joaquin Valley, California
EthnicityYokuts
Native speakers
50 (2007)[1]
Including semispeakers[1]
Language family
Yok-Utian?
  • Yokuts
Dialects
  • Palewyami
  • Buena Vista
  • Tule–Kaweah
  • Gashowu
  • Kings River
  • Delta
  • Valley
Language codes
ISO 639-3yok
Glottologyoku1255
ELPYokuts
Pre-contact distribution of the Yokuts language

Yokuts, formerly known as Mariposa, is an endangered language family spoken in the interior of Northern and Central California in and around the San Joaquin Valley by the Yokuts people. The speakers of Yokuts languages were severely affected by disease, missionaries, and the Gold Rush. While descendants of Yokuts speakers currently number in the thousands, all languages apart from Valley Yokuts are now extinct.

Map of Yokuts with languages and dialects indicated

The Yawelmani dialect of Valley Yokuts has been a focus of much linguistic research.

  1. ^ a b Yokuts at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon

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has a Headstart language program. Valley Yokuts is sometimes considered three languages. Far Northern Valley Yokuts (a.k.a. Delta Yokuts) † Yachikumne (a...

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Palewyami Yokuts

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Yawelmani Yokuts

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Kings River Yokuts

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Chukchansi dialect

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Yokuts spoken in and around the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians, in the San Joaquin Valley of California, by the Chukchansi band of Yokuts....

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Kaweah

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Ohlone languages

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Utian languages

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Southern Valley Yokuts

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Yok

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Wukchumni

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are a Yokuts tribe of California with about 200 members, residing on the Tule River Reservation. 3000 years ago, they broke off from the main Yokuts group...

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Northern Valley Yokuts

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Mono people

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Tulamni

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Tamcan

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Miwok languages

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Tachi Yokuts

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