| Eastern Pomo | |
|---|---|
| Bahtssal | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Northern California |
| Ethnicity | Eastern Pomo |
| Extinct | by 2007[1] 1 (2006)[2] |
| Revival | 2007[3] |
Pomoan
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | peb |
| Glottolog | east2545 |
| ELP | Eastern Pomo |
 The seven Pomoan languages with an indication of their pre-contact distribution within California, including Eastern Pomo | |
 Eastern Pomo is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [4] | |
Eastern Pomo, also known as Clear Lake Pomo, is a nearly extinct Pomoan language spoken around Clear Lake in Lake County, California by one of the Pomo peoples.
It is not mutually intelligible with the other Pomoan languages. Before contact with Europeans, it was spoken along the northern and southern shores of Clear Lake to the north of San Francisco, and in the coast mountains west of Sacramento Valley. Eastern Pomo shared borders in the north with the Patwin and the Yuki languages, in the south with the Lake Wappo, the Wappo, the Southeastern Pomo, the Southern Pomo, the Central Pomo, the Northern Pomo, and the Lake Miwok. They also shared a border to the west with the Northern Pomo.
The southern and northern areas in which Eastern Pomo was spoken were geographically separate, and apparently represented differing dialects, split by certain lexical and phonological differences. Contemporary Eastern Pomo speakers refer to the north shore dialect area as Upper Lake, and the south shore dialect area as Big Valley.
- ^ Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher, eds. (2007). Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 14. ISBN 978-0415310741.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Pomo Language Curriculum Development" (PDF). www.nijc.org.
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.