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Yok-Utian is a proposed language family of California. It consists of the Yokuts language and the Utian language family. While connections between Yokuts and Utian languages were noticed through attempts to reconstruct their proto-languages in 1986, [1] it was not until 1991 that Yok-Utian was proposed and named by Geoffrey Gamble.
- Utian languages
Utian (also Miwok–Costanoan, previously Mutsun) is a family...
- Yokuts language
Others consider a genetic relationship between Yokuts,...
- Utian languages
According to the proposal, the Yok-Utian proto-language was spoken by a group originating in the Great Basin at least as early as 4500 BC. There was a division around 2500 BC, as the group which began speaking Proto-Utian migrated from the Great Basin into California. Proto-Miwok began to emerge in the northern Bay Area between 1000 and 500 BC ...
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Others consider a genetic relationship between Yokutsan, Utian, Maiduan, Wintuan, and a number of Oregon languages within Penutian to be definite (cf. Delancy and Golla 1997). Regardless of higher-order disagreement, Callaghan (1997) provides strong evidence uniting Yokutsan and Utian as sub-families within a single Yok-Utian language family.
Utian (also Miwok–Costanoan, previously Mutsun) is a family of indigenous languages spoken in Northern California, United States. The Miwok and Ohlone peoples both spoke languages of the Utian language family. It has recently been argued that the Utian languages and Yokuts languages are sub-families of the Yok-Utian language family ...
Rumsen is a member of the Costanoan or Ohloean branch of the Yok-Utian language family. It was spoken in northern California in the USA, specifically near Monterey and Carmel-by-the-Sea on Moneterey Bay, along the Pajaro, Salinas and Carmel rivers, and at the Mission San Carlos de Borroméo in Carmel. The last native speaker of Rumsen, Isabel ...
