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Name:
Southern Pomo
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Russian River; Pomo, Southern; Gallinoméro; South Pomo
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
1 (1994 L. Hinton)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
3
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
1
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
peq
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Pomoan (Kulanapan)
Parent Subgroup:
Southern Group; Southern Group Pomoan (gpzt)
Child Dialects:
West Creek (peq-wes)
Salmonhole (peq-sal)
Brief Description:
"Southern Pomo, a language of the Pomoan family, is spoken by very few elderly people along the lower course of the Russian River in Sonoma County, California." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Southern Pomo
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