Delta Yokuts | |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Yok-Utian |
Fam2: | Yokutsan |
Fam3: | General Yokuts |
Fam4: | Nim |
Fam5: | Northern Yokuts |
Fam6: | Valley Yokuts? |
Glotto: | delt1254 |
Glottorefname: | Delta Yokuts |
Also Known As: | Far Northern Valley Yokuts |
States: | United States |
Region: | California |
Era: | attested 1888 |
Delta Yokuts, also termed Far Northern Valley Yokuts, is an extinct dialect network of Valley Yokuts, an indigenous Yokutsan language of California. Delta Yokuts dialects were spoken from directly northeast of modern Stockton to the confluence of the Merced and San Joaquin rivers near modern Hills Ferry.[1]
Among the attested and named dialects of Delta Yokuts were Yachikumne (Chulamni), Pasasamne, Tamukamne (also known as Tamcan), Cholovomne, Lakisamne, Atsnil, Coconoon (also spelled Huocon and Cucunun).