Hometwoli (also known as Humetwadi) was a dialect of Buena Vista Yokuts spoken in the southern portion of the Tulare Basin of California near Kern Lake.[2]
| Hometwoli | |
|---|---|
| Humetwadi | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | California |
| Era | attested 1917[1] |
Yok-Utian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | home1246 |
Out of the group of Yokuts dialects designated by Kroeber as "Foothill Yokuts," Hometwoli was reportedly the most divergent.[3]
Name
editHometwoli means "Southerners" and is a variant of the term "Homtinin," used by multiple Yokuts peoples to refer to their southern neighbors.[4]
Phonology
editHometwoli is the only dialect of Buena Vista Yokuts with central vowel phonemes.[5]
Counting system
editHometwoli varies from other Yokutsan languages in its word for "six," which derives from the same word stem in all other dialects. The Hometwoli word for "six" shows similarities with the word for "nine" in other Yokutsan dialects and may suggest the presence of a base six system.[6]
References
edit- ^ Golla, Victor (2011). California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4.
- ^ Kroeber, A. L. (1963). "YOKUTS DIALECT SURVEY" (PDF). Anthropological Records. 11.
- ^ Kroeber, A. L. (1963). "Yokuts Dialect Survey" (PDF). Anthropological Records. 11.
- ^ Kroeber, Alfred Louis (1976-01-01). Handbook of the Indians of California. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486233680.
- ^ Whistler, Kenneth W.; Golla, Victor (1986). "Proto-Yokuts Reconsidered". International Journal of American Linguistics. 52 (4): 317–358. doi:10.1086/466028. ISSN 0020-7071. JSTOR 1265536. S2CID 144822697.
- ^ Klar, Kathryn A.; Beeler, Madison S. (1977-12-01). "Interior Chumash". The Journal of California Anthropology. 4 (2).