Also Known As:
Russian River, Pomo, Southern, Gallinoméro, South Pomo
Dialects & Varieties
- West Creek
- Salmonhole
A Grammar of Southern Pomo: An Indigenous Language of California
Walker, Neil Alexander. 2013. A Grammar of Southern Pomo An Indigenous Language of California. University of California Santa Barbara PhD dissertation.
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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Speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
USA, California
Location Description
Southern Pomo speakers lived in villages from as far south as present-day Santa Rosa and Sebastopol north to the greater Cloverdale area. To the west of Cloverdale, speakers lived along Dry Creek, and a small number lived along the highlands west of the Russian River valley and in the redwood forests and coastal land along the Pacific between the Kashaya and the Central Pomo speakers.
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Other Languages Used By The Community
English
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
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