Wappo language

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Wappo
Spoken in:	Alexander Valley (formerly)
Language extinction:	Laura Somersal (d. 1990) one of last fluent speakers
Language family:	American  Yuki-Wappo   Wappo
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	–
ISO 639-3:	wao
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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.

Contents 1 Regional variation 2 See also 3 External links 4 Bibliography

[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

• Wappo

[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).
• Thompson, Sandra A., Joseph Sung-Yul Park, and Charles N. Li, "A Reference Grammar of Wappo" (May 1, 2006). UC Publications in Linguistics. Paper vol_138.

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