Alternate Names:
Wintu; Wintun
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
5 (1997 A. Shepherd). 30 Nomlaki and 15 Wintun use it in the home(2000 census). Ethnic population: 2,244 (1997 A. Shepherd)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
2
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
5
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
wit
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Retired:
March 28, 2013
Description:
This code has split into codes:
nol, wnw, pwi Brief Description: "Wintu-Nomlaki is one of the two languages of the Wintuan family of northern California, and was originally spoken in the northern half of the Sacramento Valley, on the upper Sacramento River below Mt. Shasta, and in the upper drainage of the Trinity River and on Hayfork Creek in Trinity County. There were two major dialects, Nomlaki, spoken along the Sacramento River south of Red Bluff, and Wintu, spoken elsewhere in the territory. There appears to have been no significant difference between the variety of Wintu spoken in the Trinity-Hayfork area and the Sacramento Valley variety. At least one fluent, traditional speaker of the Wintu dialect remains, although elderly, as well as several semi-speakers." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
nol, wnw, pwi Brief Description: "Wintu-Nomlaki is one of the two languages of the Wintuan family of northern California, and was originally spoken in the northern half of the Sacramento Valley, on the upper Sacramento River below Mt. Shasta, and in the upper drainage of the Trinity River and on Hayfork Creek in Trinity County. There were two major dialects, Nomlaki, spoken along the Sacramento River south of Red Bluff, and Wintu, spoken elsewhere in the territory. There appears to have been no significant difference between the variety of Wintu spoken in the Trinity-Hayfork area and the Sacramento Valley variety. At least one fluent, traditional speaker of the Wintu dialect remains, although elderly, as well as several semi-speakers." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
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