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Yokuts language

Yokuts language

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A language spoken by the Yokuts people in California's San Joaquin Valley
  • noun
: idioma yokuts
  • Scholars have compiled dictionaries to help preserve the Yokuts language.

Examples

  • The Yokuts language has several dialects.

  • The Yokuts language contains many words describing the natural environment of the San Joaquin Valley.

  • Few people still speak the Yokuts language in California today.

  • Many people are learning the Yokuts language today.

  • Few people still speak the Yokuts language in California today.

  • Scholars have compiled dictionaries to help preserve the Yokuts language.

  • The Yokuts language contains many words describing the natural environment of the San Joaquin Valley.

Synonyms

Yokuts
vsYokuts language
9.9

A Native American language spoken in California's San Joaquin Valley

is the identical sense but differs only in small wording choices
Mariposan
vsYokuts language
  • Specialized
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A language once spoken by the Yokuts people in California's San Joaquin Valley

presents the language as traditionally spoken rather than no longer used

Surface Forms

Yokuts language singular
Yokuts languages plural

Morphology

Yokuts + language

This phrase is fully compositional: 'Yokuts' names the people/group (or their ethnonym) and 'language' denotes a speech system, so together it straightforwardly means the language of the Yokuts. The noun + language pattern is a common, cross-linguistic possessive/attributive construction that a learner who knows both constituents can readily interpret.

Etymology

Yokuts language gets its name from the Yokuts people who lived for many years in California's San Joaquin Valley. It simply means 'the language of the Yokuts people', so today the phrase is used to talk about their traditional way of speaking.