Hometwoli dialect

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Hometwoli
Humetwadi, Khometwoli
Native to
Yok-Utian
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologhome1246

Hometwoli (also known as Humetwadi) was a dialect of

Kern Lake.[2]

Out of the group of Yokuts dialects designated by Kroeber as "Foothill Yokuts," Hometwoli was reportedly the most divergent.[2]

Name

Hometwoli means "Southerners" and is a variant of the term Homtinin, used by multiple Yokuts peoples to refer to their southern neighbors.[3]

Phonology

Hometwoli is the only dialect of Buena Vista Yokuts with central vowel phonemes.[4]

Counting system

Hometwoli varies from other

Yokutsan languages in its word for "six," which derives from the same word stem in all other dialects. The Hometwoli word for "six" shows similarities with the word for "nine" in other Yokutsan dialects and may suggest the presence of a base six system.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4
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  2. ^ a b Kroeber, A. L. (1963). "Yokuts Dialect Survey" (PDF). Anthropological Records. 11.
  3. ISBN 9780486233680
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  4. S2CID 144822697
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  5. ^ Klar, Kathryn A.; Beeler, Madison S. (1977-12-01). "Interior Chumash". The Journal of California Anthropology. 4 (2).
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