Recent Resources
This is a FREE ONLINE DOWNLOADABLE dictionary provided by Kawaiisu.org. Enjoy!
By Maurice L. Zigmond, Curtis G.
This book was made in 2011 and is published by Alan P. Garfinkel and Harold Williams.
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
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Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
Bibliography of Locations:
Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell. 2010. "Endangered Languages of the United States." In Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing, edited by Christopher Moseley. 108-130. UNESCO.
Bibliography of Context:
Green, Lydia. 2013. The Kawaiisu language revitalization effort in southern California. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 16: 279-289.