Alternate Names:
Washo; Washoe; Washoa
Spoken in:
USA
Code:
was
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Brief Description:
"Washo, an isolate, often associated with the controversial Hokan stock, is spoken by members of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, whose traditional homeland centers on Lake Tahoe in the High Sierra. There are several dozen fluent first-language speakers, all middle-aged or elderly, in a total population of over 1,500, divided among four small reservations in both Nevada and California." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25

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