A Contribution to Delta Yokuts Vocabulary: Some Items from Tamukan

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" A Contribution to Delta Yokuts Vocabulary: Some Items from Tamukan "
Smith, Norval

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	940612
Doc. No	:	LA8c95r68z
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Smith, Norval
Title & Author	:	A Contribution to Delta Yokuts Vocabulary: Some Items from Tamukan [Article]\ Smith, Norval
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	27/1
Date	:	2007
Abstract	:	A manuscript at the National Anthropological Archives containing words in seven different languages—some of which were misidentified in the past as being ''Yukian''—is reevaluated in the light of new information. A number of unattributed Yokuts words are identified, and arguments are presented for attributing these to a little-known Delta Yokuts tribelet dialect, Tamukan. Delta Yokuts was probably spoken by a greater number of tribelets than any other Yokuts language (with the possible exception of Valley Yokuts). It is evident that the known tribelet dialects exhibited a fair amount of lexical variation. Since Delta Yokuts is one of the least attested Yokuts languages, any new information concerning it is welcome.