Endangered Languages Project - Patwin

Patwin

Classification: Wintuan

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critically endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Wintuan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		pwi
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Hill Patwin Southern Hill Patwin Putah Cortina and Napa Rumsey Tebti Lodoga River Patwin Colusa Grimes
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Ethnologue considers Patwin a dialect of Wintu (Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki).

Compare Sources (3)

Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1?
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Possibly one speaker.

DATE OF INFO: 1997

PLACES: California

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Originally spoken in two major dialects or dialect clusters along the Sacramento River from Colusa south to the Delta and in the foothills of the Coast Range to the west. Descendants live on small rancherias at Cortina and Colusa, and on the Rumsey (Cache Creek) Rancheria west of Woodland.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

38.7608,-122.0354

Compare Sources (1)

Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO