Nomlaki language

{{Short description|Wintuan language of California, US}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Nomlaki

| nativename = {{lang|nol|Nomlāqa Bōda}}

| states = United States

| region = Northern California

| ethnicity = Nomlaki people

| extinct =

| ref = {{Cite book |last=Golla |first=Victor |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/668191602 |title=California Indian languages |date=2011 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-26667-4 |location=Berkeley |oclc=668191602}}

| speakers2 =

| familycolor = penutian

| fam1 = Wintuan

| fam2 = Northern

| iso3 = nol

| glotto = noml1242

| glottorefname = Nomlaki

| speakers = ≥1 partial speaker

| date = 2011

| altname = Central Wintun

}}

Nomlaki (Noamlakee), or Wintun, is a moribund Wintuan language of Northern California. It was not extensively documented, however, some recordings exist of speaker Andrew Freeman and Sylvester Simmons.{{Cite web

|url= http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/blc_lang_disp.pl?10103

|title=UC Berkeley, BLC Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork

|work=mip.berkeley.edu

|access-date=April 28, 2010

}}

There is at least one partial speaker left.

Nomlaki Indians, or in their own language {{lang|nol|Nomlāqa Bōda}}; {{lang|nol|nom}} is 'west', and {{lang|nol|lāqa}} is a verb form of 'speak',E. G. Gudde 1998 in William Bright: Native American Place Names of the United States, Norman, Okla., 2004, University of Oklahoma Press. thus 'western speakers' (but 'western dwellers', J. Curtin 1898 in F. W. Hodge 1910).