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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~20

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Language Information By Source

California Indian Languages
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~20

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Ethnic Population

1500

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More about speakers

As of 2008 there were about twenty fluent first-language speakers of Washo, all middle-aged or elderly, out of a total population of more than fifteen hundred

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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USA

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Location description

Nevada, California

Government support

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Other writing systems

Nevada, California

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Other languages used

English

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

USA

Coordinates

38.9226,-119.7256

Location description

Nevada, California

Government support

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Nevada, California

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

10 (Unchanged 2016.)

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Second-language speakers and learners

"A number of children and young adults have acquired moderate L2 fluency."

Semi-speakers

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Ethnic Population

1,500

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

(1998 J. Brook). "Several dozen fully fluent speakers" (Golla 2007).

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

USA

Coordinates

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Location description

"California-Nevada border southeast of Lake Tahoe."

Government support

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Script (Writing system)

Latin

Other writing systems

"California-Nevada border southeast of Lake Tahoe."

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

Several dozen

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Many adults and children have become second-language speakers or semi-speakers. (Golla 2007:90)

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

USA

Coordinates

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Location description

Nevada, California

Government support

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Nevada, California

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The Washo Tribe has a successful immersion school (kindergaten-8th grade)

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

Several dozen

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

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More about speakers

Several dozen fluent first-language speakers, all middle-aged or elderly, in a total population of over 1,500, divided among four small reservations in both Nevada and California.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

USA

Coordinates

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Location description

Spoken by members of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, whose traditional homeland centers on Lake Tahoe in the High Sierra.

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Spoken by members of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, whose traditional homeland centers on Lake Tahoe in the High Sierra.

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

39.25,-120.0

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