Southern Maidu ( Neeshenam, Nisenan, Nishinam, Pujuni, Southern Maidu, Wapumni ) is a dead Indian language, which the Maidu people used to live at the foot of the Sierras River in Central California in the United States. It differs from other Maiduan varieties. At present, people speak English.
| South maidu | |
|---|---|
| Country | USA |
| Regions | Central California |
| Status | |
| Extinct | (date unknown) |
| Classification | |
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| Writing | Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | nsz |
| WALS | |
| Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
| Ethnologue | |
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Notes
Links
- South Maidu on Ethnologue
Literature
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: Native America . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1 .
- Eatough, Andrew. (1999). Central Hill Nisenan Texts with Grammatical Sketch . Berkeley: UC Publications in Linguistics, 132.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.) (2009). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (16th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-216-6 .
- Heizer, Robert F. (1966). Languages, territories, and names of California Indian tribes .
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (nsz); ISBN 0-521-29875-X .
- Wallace, Alan. (2008). Nisenan Workbook # 1 & # 2 .