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Nisenan (or alternatively, Southern Maidu, Neeshenam, Nishinam, Pujuni, or Wapumni) is a nearly extinct Maiduan language spoken
by the Nisenan (or Southern Maidu, etc. as above) people of central California in the foothills of the Sierras, in the whole
of the American, Bear and Yuba river drainages. Ethnologue states that there is only one speaker left. However, it is believed
that there are a few other speakers left, although the number is not known. Most speakers also speak one or more of the different
dialects. There has recently been a small effort at language revival. Most notably the release of the Nisenan Workbook (three
volumes so far) put out by Alan Wallace, which can be found at the California State Indian Museum in Sacramento and the Maidu
Interpretive Center in Roseville. As the Nisenan (like many of the Natives of central California) were not a single large
tribe but a collection of independent tribelets (smaller tribes, as compared to Native groups in the east) which are grouped
together primarily on linguistic similarity, there were many dialects to varying degrees of variation. This has led to some
degree of inconsistency in the available linguistic data, primarily in regards to the phonemes. |
Names (more)[en] Nisenan language[fr] Nisenan |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : nszLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/nszhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:nsz More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: nszFreebase ISO 639-3 : nsz GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |