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Wappo language

Wappo language

Infobox Language
region=Alexander Valley (formerly)
name=Wappo
iso3=wao
familycolor=American
fam2=Yuki-Wappo
extinct=Laura Somersal (d. 1990) one of last fluent speakers

Wappo is an extinct Yuki-Wappo language spoken in the Alexander Valley north of San Francisco in western California. Wappo is related to the Yuki language.

Regional variation

Wappo had 5 varieties:

* Clear Lake Wappo
* Russian River Wappo (a.k.a. Western Wappo)
* Northern Wappo
* Central Wappo
* Southern Wappo

ee also

* Wappo

External links

* Ethnologue: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wao Wappo]

Bibliography

* Campbell, Lyle. (1997). "American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America". New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
* Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). "Languages". Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
* Mithun, Marianne. (1999). "The languages of Native North America". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
* Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978-present). "Handbook of North American Indians" (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).
*Thompson, Sandra A., Joseph Sung-Yul Park, and Charles N. Li, "A Reference Grammar of Wappo" (May 1, 2006). UC Publications in Linguistics. Paper vol_138. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/ucpl/vol_138 AVAILABLE AS FREE DOWNLOAD


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