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Name:
Central Pomo
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Oat Valley; Pomo, Central; Ballo-Kai-Pomo; Cabanapo; Habenapo; H'hana; Kábinapek; Khabenapo; Khana; Kulanapan; Kulanapo; Venaambakaia; Venambakaiia; Yokaia; H’hana; Pomo (Central); Yokaya; Pomo
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
4 (1997 M. Mithun). Ethnic population: 4,766 (1997 M. Mithun); 255 (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
3
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
3
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
poo
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Pomoan (Kulanapan)
Parent Subgroup:
Southern Group; Southern Group Pomoan (gpzt)
Child Dialects:
Hopland; Shanel (poo-hop)
Point Arena-Manchester; Point Arena (poo-poi)
Brief Description:
"Central Pomo, a language of the Pomoan family of Northern California, is spoken by a very few speakers on the California coast at Point Arena-Manchester and about 40 miles inland in the Hopland area." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 12
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 Central Pomo
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