Patwin | |
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Spoken in | United States |
Region | Colusa County, northern California |
Ethnicity | Patwin |
Native speakers | 1 (1997) |
Language family |
Wintuan
|
Dialects |
Hill Patwin
River Patwin
?Southern Patwin
|
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | 09x |
Patwin (Patween) is a moribund or extinct Wintuan language language of Northern California. There was one speaker left ca. 1997.
Southern Patwin went extinct shortly after contact. It is very poorly attested, and may be a separate Southern Wintuan language (Mithun 1999).