Northern Pomo language

Northern Pomo language
Northern Pomo
Spoken in United States
Region Northern California
Extinct 1994 with the death of Edna Guerrero.
Language family
Pomoan
  • Northern Pomo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pej
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Pre-contact distribution of Pomoan languages

Northern Pomo is an extinct Pomoan language formerly spoken around Clear Lake in Lake County, California by the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, one of the several Pomo peoples.

The Northern Pomo language became extinct in 1994 with the death of Edna Guerrero.

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Bibliography

  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
  • O'Connor, Mary Catherine. (1990). Third-person reference in Northern Pomo conversation: The indexing of discourse genre and social relations. International Journal of American Linguistics, 56 (3), 377-409.



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