Tule-Kaweah Yokuts


Tule-Kaweah is a Yokuts dialect of California. One subdialect survives, that of the Wukchumni tribe, with a single speaker remaining as of 2014.
Wukchumni has only one native or fluent speaker, Marie Wilcox, who has compiled a dictionary of the language. “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, is about her dictionary. She has also recorded an oral version of the dictionary. Together with her daughter Jennifer, Marie Wilcox teaches weekly classes to interested members of their tribe.

Dialects

There were three subdialects of Tule-Kaweah, Wukchumni, Yawdanchi, and Bokninuwad.