Northeastern Pomo | |
States: | United States |
Region: | Northern California |
Extinct: | 1961 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Pomoan |
Iso3: | pef |
Glotto: | nort2967 |
Glottorefname: | Northeastern Russian River Pomo |
Map: | Pomoan languages map.svg |
Mapcaption: | The seven Pomoan languages with an indication of their pre-contact distribution within California |
Northeastern Pomo, also known as Salt Pomo, is a Pomoan language of Northern California. There are no living fluent speakers. It was spoken along Stony Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River. Northeastern was one of seven mutually unintelligible Pomoan languages spoken in Northern California. Unlike the other six Pomoan languages (going to north to south: Northern Pomo, Central Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, Kashaya Pomo, Southern Pomo), Northeastern Pomo was not spoken in an area immediately contiguous with any other Pomoan-speaking area. Northeastern Pomo speakers were ringed by speakers of Yuki, Nomlaki, and Patwin; Yuki is unrelated to Pomoan or Nomlaki and Patwin, both of which are within the Wintu language family.