Patwin language

Patwin
Spoken in United States
Region Colusa County, northern California
Ethnicity Patwin
Native speakers 1  (1997)
Language family
Wintuan
  • Southern
    • Patwin
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).

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