| Wintu | |
|---|---|
| Northern Wintun | |
| wintʰuːh | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Shasta County, Trinity County, California |
| Ethnicity | Wintu people |
| Extinct | 2003, with the death of Flora Jones[1] 1 partial speaker (2011) |
| Revival | 2011 |
Wintuan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wnw |
| Glottolog | nucl1651 |
| ELP | Wintu |
 Wintu-Nomlaki is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
| Person | Wintʰu |
|---|---|
| People | Wintʰun |
| Language | Wintʰuh |
| Country | Wintʰu Pom |
Wintu /wɪnˈtuː/[2] is a Wintu language which was spoken by the Wintu people of Northern California. It was the northernmost member of the Wintun family of languages. The Wintun family of languages was spoken in the Shasta County, Trinity County, Sacramento River Valley and in adjacent areas up to the Carquinez Strait of San Francisco Bay. Wintun is a branch of the hypothetical Penutian language phylum or stock of languages of western North America, more closely related to four other families of Penutian languages spoken in California: Maiduan, Miwokan, Yokuts, and Costanoan.[3]
As of 2011, Headman Marc Franco of the Winnemem Wintu has been working with the Indigenous Language Institute on revitalization of the Winnemem Wintu language.[4]
- ^ Golla (2011)
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ Golla 2011: 128–168
- ^ "Indigenous Language Activists - Living Tongues Institute For Endangered Languages". Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-02.