Choynimni dialect

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| name = Choynimni

| familycolor = penutian

| fam1 = Yok-Utian

| fam2 = Yokuts

| fam3 = General Yokuts

| fam4 = Nim

| fam5 = Northern Yokuts

| fam6 = Kings River Yokuts

| extinct = 2022 with the death of Jennie Irene Oliver

| ethnicity = Choinumni

| region = California

| date = 2022

| speakers2 = ~6 with some knowledge

| states = United States

| imagecaption = Information on Choynimni collected by A. L. Kroeber

| image = Choynimni Kroeber.png

| glotto = none

| isoexception = dialect

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Choynimni (also spelled Choinumne) is a dialect of Kings River Yokuts historically spoken along the Kings River between Sanger and Mill Creek (near Piedra). The language is the best documented dialect of Kings River Yokuts.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_yqdSE1F8wC&q=Choynimni&pg=PA151|title=California Indian Languages|last=Golla|first=Victor|date=2011-08-02|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520266674|pages=151|language=en}}

Information on the language was collected by Clinton Hart Merriam and Stanley Newman.

Fluent speakers

Jennie Irene Oliver, one of the last fully fluent speaker of Choynimni died in 2022 at the age of 83. Living members of the tribe retain knowledge of Choynimni including an estimated half dozen speakers.Cites surviving children and family of Mrs. Oliver.{{Cite web|url=http://cla.berkeley.edu/languages/yokuts.php|title=Survey of California and Other Indian Languages|website=cla.berkeley.edu|access-date=2019-08-31}}

Revitalization effort

Efforts to revitalize the language have been organized through the California State University, Fresno Department of Linguistics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/linguistics/ilg.html|title=Indigenous Languages Group|website=www.fresnostate.edu|access-date=2019-08-30}}

References

Category:Endangered Yokutsan languages