Mattole language
{{Short description|Extinct Athabaskan language of California}}
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{{Infobox language
| name = Mattole
| altname = Mattole–Bear River
| states = United States
| region = California
| ethnicity = Mattole, Bear River
| extinct = 1930s (Mattole)
after 1922 (Bear River dialect)
| familycolor = Dené-Yeniseian
| fam2 = Na-Dené
| fam3 = Athabaskan
| fam4 = Pacific Coast Athabaskan
| map = Lang Status 01-EX.svg
| mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Mattole is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}{{cite report |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |publisher=UNESCO |edition=3rd |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026 |date=2010 |page=11}}
| iso3 = mvb
| glotto = matt1238
| glottorefname = Mattole-Bear River
| dia1 = Bear River
}}
Mattole, or Mattole–Bear River, is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by the Mattole and Bear River peoples of northern California. It is one of the four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. It was found in two locations: in the valley of the Mattole River, immediately south of Cape Mendocino on the coast of northwest California, and a distinct dialect on Bear River, about 10 miles to the north. The Mattole have expressed interest in reviving their language.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mattole.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Rural-Resilience-Center-planning-report_April-2022.pdf|title=Implementing an Education and Resilience Center for the Northern King Range NCA and Rural Coastal Communities|author1=Corina McDonald|author2=Amy Marigo|author3=OliviaRose Williams|author4=Alexandra Gonzalez|publisher=Mattole Restoration Council|year=2022|accessdate=26 February 2025}}
References
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- {{cite book|last=Driver|first=Harold Edson|title=Vocabularies (from Tolowa, Chilula, Van Duzen, Mattole, Sinkyone of Northwestern California)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OjOLwEACAAJ|access-date=26 August 2012|year=1935|publisher=California Indian Library Collections}}
- Goddard, Pliny Earle (1929). "The Bear River Dialect of Athapascan." University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 24 (5):291-334, 1929.
- Golla, Victor (2011). California Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-052-026667-4}}.
- {{Cite book |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |series=Publications in Anthropology, Linguistics Series |last=Li |first=Fang-Kuei |author-link=Li Fang-Kuei |location=Chicago, Ill. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030695996&seq=168 |title=Mattole: an Athabaskan language |year=1930}}
- Yeadon, David, "California’s North Face", National Geographic, vol. 184, no. 1, p. 48-79, July 1993.
External links
- [http://www.dickgrune.com/NatLang/Summaries/Mattole.pdf A Survey of the Athabaskan Language Mattole]
- [http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/languages/mattole.php Mattole language] overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- [http://www.native-languages.org/mattole.htm Mattole] at native-languages.org
- [http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_mtl Mattole, World Atlas of Language Structures Online]
- [http://www.language-archives.org/language/mvb OLAC resources in and about the Mattole language]
- [http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100\nde\pca&limit=-1 Mattole basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database]
- {{Cite web
| title = Live Your Language Alliance (LYLA)
| access-date = 2012-08-02
| url = http://www.liveyourlanguagealliance.org/
}} "It is the desire of the Live Your Language Alliance to hear and speak the traditional languages of the Tolowa, Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tsnungwe, Wiyot, Mattole, and Wailaki."
{{Languages of California}}
{{Athabaskan languages}}
Category:Indigenous languages of California