The Poso Creek, Buena Vista, and Gashowu subgroups have been extinct since the 1930s. Fewer than ten speakers of the Wikchamni (locally referred to as ''Wukchumne") dialect of the Tule-Kaweah subgroup remain, most of them living on the Tule River Reservation near Porterville. Half a dozen elderly speakers or partial speakers of the Choynimni ("Choinumne") dialect of the Kings River subgroup live in scattered locations in and around their traditional homeland. There are speakers of at least three Valley Yokuts dialects, including up to twenty-five fluent and semifluent speakers of Yawelmani ("Yowlumne") on the Tule River Reservation, a few speakers of Chukchansi at the Picayune and Table Mountain Rancherias in the foothills northeast of Fresno, and a few speakers of Tachi at the Santa Rosa Rancheria near Lemoore.

Yokuts is a large complex of dialects, in the San Joaquin Valley of south-central California and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to the east. There were over 40 local varieties, with 6 emergent languages. Tule-Kaweah Yokiuts is a cluster of dialects originally spoken in the Sierra Nevada foothills along the Tule and Kaweah Rivers, east of Porterville. Fewer than 10 speakers of the Wukchumne (Wikchamni) dialect of Tule-Kaweah remain, most of them on the Tule River Reservation.