Wappo language
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| Wappo | ||
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| Spoken in: | Alexander Valley (formerly) | |
| Language extinction: | Laura Somersal (d. 1990) one of last fluent speakers | |
| Language family: | American Yuki-Wappo Wappo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | wao | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Wappo is an extinct Yuki-Wappo language spoken in the Alexander Valley north of San Francisco in western California. Wappo is related to the Yuki language.
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[edit] Regional variation
Wappo had 5 varieties:
- Clear Lake Wappo
- Russian River Wappo (a.k.a. Western Wappo)
- Northern Wappo
- Central Wappo
- Southern Wappo
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue: Wappo
[edit] Bibliography
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). Languages. Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
- Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978-present). Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).
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