Yuchi language
The Yuchi language is the language of the Tsohaya.[4]
| Yuchi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euchee Tsoyaha | ||||
| Native to | United States | |||
| Region | East central Oklahoma | |||
| Ethnicity | 1,500 Yuchi (2007)[1] | |||
| Extinct | August 27, 2021, with the death of Maxine Wildcat Barnett[2] | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | yuc | |||
 Distribution of Yuchi at the time of European contact | ||||
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Yuchi Language Media
Cheeaexeco, a Yuchi woman, painted by George Catlin, 1838
Sisters Maxine Wildcat Barnett (1925-2021) (left) and Josephine Wildcat Bigler (1921-2016); two of the last elderly speakers of Yuchi, visiting their grandmother's grave in a cemetery behind Pickett Chapel in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. According to the sisters, their grandmother had insisted that Yuchi be their native language.
Notes
- ↑ Yuchi language at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
- ↑ In Memoriam: Maxine Wildcat Barnett | Yuchi (in en-US). Spirit Aligned Leadership. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ↑ Din, Benjamin (2021-04-13) (in en). 'Race against time': Pandemic propels fight to save Native American languages. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/13/pandemic-native-american-languages-481081. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ↑ Yuchi language (in en). Wikipedia (2025-04-03). Retrieved 2025-04-22.
Works cited
- Ballard, William L.. More on Yuchi Pronouns. International Journal of American Linguistics 44 (2) (1978). p. 103–112. doi:10.1086/465527.
- Edmondson, Jerold. Yuchi (2011). Arlington: University of Texas.
- Gatschet, Albert S.. The Yuchi Tribe and its Language. Science 5 (112) (1885). p. 253.
- Linn, Mary Sarah. A Grammar of Euchee (Yuchi) (2001). Kansas City, KS: University of Kansas.
- Speck, Frank G.. Ethnology of Yuchi Indians (1909). Philadelphia: University Museum.
- Speck, Frank G.. Eggan's Yuchi Kinship Interpretations. American Anthropologist 41 (1) (1939). p. 171–172. doi:10.1525/aa.1939.41.1.02a00330.
- Wagner, Gunther. Handbook of American Indian Languages 3 (1938). p. 300–374. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
- Wolff, Hans. Yuchi Phonemes and Morphemes, with Special Reference to Person Markers. International Journal of American Linguistics 14 (4) (1948). p. 240–243. doi:10.1086/464011.
Other websites
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Yuchi language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Yuchi word list |
- The Euchee Language Project
- Yuchi Language Primer
- Albert S. Gatschet's original list of Yuchi vocabulary (1878–1891)
- Albert S. Gatschet's original list of Yuchi vocabulary (1832–1907)
- Gunther Wagner. Yuchi Tales (1931)Internet Archive. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
- Joseph Mahan Collection Archived 2017-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, at Columbus State University Archives. Collection includes audio/visual recordings of Yuchi language (not yet available online)
- Yuchi Language Project Attends Youth Language Fair. Cultural Survival (2012-04-26). Retrieved 2012-08-08.
- OLAC resources in and about the Yuchi language
- gOnE Enû O’wAdAnA: A New Generation of Yuchi Speakers, Cultural Survival
