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The Yokuts (previously known as Mariposas [4]) are an ethnic group of Native Americans native to central California. Before European contact, the Yokuts consisted of up to 60 tribes speaking several related languages.
Yokuts, North American Indians speaking a Penutian language and who historically inhabited the San Joaquin Valley and the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of the Fresno River in what is now California, U.S. The Yokuts were traditionally divided into tribelets, perhaps as many as 50, each having a dialect, territory, and name of its own.
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Wikipedia. The Yokuts, also called Mariposan, a name derived from present-day Mariposa County, are native to central California.
Jul 25, 2020 · Yokuts, formerly known as Mariposa, is an endangered language spoken in the interior of Northern and Central California in and around the San Joaquin Valley by the Yokuts people. The speakers of Yokuts were severely affected by disease, missionaries, and the Gold Rush. While descendants of Yokuts speakers currently number in the thousands, most of the constituent dialects are now extinct.
May 14, 2018 · History. United States and Canada. North American indigenous peoples. Yokuts. views 3,135,634 updated May 14 2018. Yokuts. ETHNONYMS: Mariposan, Noche. Orientation. Identification.
Yokuts language information and the culture, history and genealogy of the Yokut Indians (including the Tachi, Yowlumne, and Chukchansi.)
Choynimni went extinct in 2017. Wikchamni, Chukchansi, Tachi, and Yawelmani were being taught to at least a few children during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Chukchansi is now a written language, with its own alphabet developed on a federal grant.
