Northern Valley Yokuts

{{Short description|Valley Yokuts dialect}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Northern Valley Yokuts

| familycolor = penutian

| glotto = nort2937

| glottorefname = Northern Hill/Valley Yokuts

| fam1 = Yok-Utian ?

| fam2 = Yokutsan

| fam3 = General Yokuts

| fam4 = Nim

| fam5 = Northern Yokuts

| fam6 = Valley Yokuts

| states = United States

| region = Central Valley, California

| speakers = ?

| dia1 = Chawchila

| dia2 = Nopṭinṭe

| dia3 = Kechayi

| dia4 = Dumna

| dia5 = Dalinchi

| dia6 = Toltichi

| dia7 = Chukchansi

}}

Northern Valley Yokuts is a dialect network within the Valley Yokuts division of the Yokutsan languages spoken in the Central Valley of California.{{Cite journal|last1=Whistler|first1=Kenneth W.|last2=Golla|first2=Victor|date=1986|title=Proto-Yokuts Reconsidered|journal=International Journal of American Linguistics|volume=52|issue=4|pages=317–358|doi=10.1086/466028|jstor=1265536|s2cid=144822697|issn=0020-7071}} Among the languages belonging to the network are Chawchila, Nopṭinṭe, Kechayi, Dumna, Dalinchi, Toltichi, and Chukchansi. Of these, Kechayi, Dumna, Dalinchi, Toltichi, and Chukchansi are frequently grouped under the label Northern Hill dialects.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_yqdSE1F8wC&q=Ayitcha+yokuts|title=California Indian Languages|last=Golla|first=Victor|date=2011-08-02|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520266674|language=en}}