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California Indian Languages
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With the exception of 2 or 3 elderly rememberers of Tolowa at Smith River or of Lower Rogue River at Siletz, no native speaker of any Oregon Athabaskan variety survive[d] in 2010. The last fully fluent first-language speakers of Chetco-Tolowa and Rogue River died before 1990 ... Since 1980 a number of learners have acquired some degree of second-language fluency in Tolowa ... Much of the success of the Tolowa language revival is due to Loren Bommelyn, and the revitalization effort he spearheads has a broad cultural and religious base.

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2011

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USA

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Sileltz and Grand Ronde reservations in Oregon, Smith River in northwest California

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Sileltz and Grand Ronde reservations in Oregon, Smith River in northwest California

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2010

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41.9566,-124.1915

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Oregon, California

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Oregon, California

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2010

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41.9566,-124.1915

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Oregon, California

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1,000

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"One elderly semispeaker in 2001 but growing numbers of younger emerging speakers with limited competence"(Golla 2007).

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2015

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"California, Smith River Rancheria, near Crescent City."

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"California, Smith River Rancheria, near Crescent City."

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Tolowa is spoken by a few individuals at the Smith River Rancheria near Crescent City, California. It is nearly extinct as a first language (one elderly semi-speaker survives in 2001) but there is one fully fluent second-language speaker in his 40s.

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2008

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Oregon, California: Smith River Rancheria near Crescent City, California.

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2009

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California: in and around Smith River

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California: in and around Smith River

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5 second language speakers of Siletz Dee-ni, one dialect variety of Tolowa.

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2012

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Oregon

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