Palewyami | |
Nativename: | Poso Creek, Altinin |
Region: | San Joaquin Valley, California |
Ethnicity: | Yokuts |
Extinct: | 1930s |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Yok-Utian ? |
Fam2: | Yokuts |
Iso3: | none |
Iso3comment: | (included in [yok]) |
Glotto: | pale1254 |
Glottorefname: | Palewyami Yokuts |
Palewyami, also known as Altinin and Poso Creek Yokuts, was a major dialect of the Yokuts language of California, or possibly a distinct but closely related language.
Palewyami was spoken in Kern County, along Poso Creek. The language has not been spoken since the 1930s.[1]