Nisenan language
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| Nisenan | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | California | |
| Total speakers: | 1 | |
| Language family: | Maiduan Nisenan |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | nsz | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Nisenan (or alternatively, Southern Maidu, Neeshenam, Nishinam, Pujuni, or Wapumni) is a nearly extinct Maiduan language spoken by Maidu peoples traditionally in central California in the foothills of the Sierras, in the whole of the American, Bear and Yuba river drainages.
Only one older speaker remains.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue: Nisenan
[edit] Bibliography
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
- Heizer, Robert F. (1966). Languages, territories, and names of California Indian tribes.
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (nsz); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
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