Nomlaki language

Nomlaki
Central Wintun
Nomlāqa Bōda
Native toUnited States
RegionNorthern California
EthnicityNomlaki people
Native speakers
≥1 partial speaker (2011)[1]
Wintuan
  • Northern
    • Nomlaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3nol
Glottolognoml1242

Nomlaki (Noamlakee), or Wintun, is a moribund Wintuan language of Northern California. It was not extensively documented, however, some recordings exist of speaker Andrew Freeman and Sylvester Simmons.[2] There is at least one partial speaker left.[1]

Nomlaki Indians, or in their own language Nomlāqa Bōda; nom is ‘west’, and lāqa is a verb form of ‘speak’,[3] thus ‘western speakers’ (but ‘western dwellers’, J. Curtin 1898 in F. W. Hodge 1910).

  1. ^ a b Golla, Victor (2011). California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4. OCLC 668191602.
  2. ^ "UC Berkeley, BLC Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork". mip.berkeley.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  3. ^ E. G. Gudde 1998 in William Bright: Native American Place Names of the United States, Norman, Okla., 2004, University of Oklahoma Press.