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Name:
Southeastern Pomo
Alternate Names:
Pomo, Southeastern; Lower Lake Pomo; Southeast Pomo; Pomo (Southeastern); Lower Lake; Southeast Clear Lake Pomo
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
5 (1994 L. Hinton)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
5
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
pom
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Pomoan (Kulanapan)
Parent Subgroup:
Southeastern Pomo; Southeastern Pomoan Subfamily (sepo)
Child Dialect:
Sulphur Bank (pom-sul)
Brief Description:
"Southeastern Pomo, a language of the Pomoan family, was spoken to the east of Clear Lake around East Lake and Lower Lake, and is the heritage language of the Elem Indian Colony at Sulphur Bank and the Lower Lake Rancheria. The last fluent speaker died in the 1990s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Southeastern Pomo
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