Caron, Bernard. 2011. Tonal Inversion in Geji and Pelu. Presentation at the Sixth Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Villejuif, France, September 22-23
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
Speakers
Location and Context
The Poso Creek, Buena Vista, and Gashowu subgroups have been extinct since the 1930s. Wikchamni (locally referred to as ''Wukchumne") dialect of the Tule-Kaweah subgroup, most of them living on the Tule River Reservation near Porterville. Choynimni ("Choinumne") dialect of the Kings River subgroup live in scattered locations in and around their traditional homeland. At least three Valley Yokuts dialects, including Yawelmani ("Yowlumne") on the Tule River Reservation, Chukchansi at the Picayune and Table Mountain Rancherias in the foothills northeast of Fresno, and Tachi at the Santa Rosa Rancheria near Lemoore.