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Name:
Tolowa
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Smith River; Tolowa-Chetco; Smith River Athabaskan; Chetco
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
4 (1994 L. Hinton). Ethnic population: 1,000 (2000 A. Yamamoto)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
4
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
tol
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Oregon Athabaskan; Oregon Division; Oregon; Oregon Athapaskan (oreg)
Brief Description:
"Tolowa, the only surviving language of the Oregon Athabaskan subgroup, is spoken by a few individuals at the Smith River Rancheria near Crescent City, California. It is nearly extinct as a first language (one elderly semi-speaker survives in 2001) but there is one fully fluent second-language speaker in his 40s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg 24
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Tolowa
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