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<p>New page: &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also Known As:&lt;/b&gt; Tsamak,Michopdo,Secumne,Yuba,Concow,Sekumne,Maiduan,Meid...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also Known As:&lt;/b&gt; Tsamak,Michopdo,Secumne,Yuba,Concow,Sekumne,Maiduan,Meidoo,Konkau,Digger,Konkow,Nákum,Holólupai<br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> The Konkow language (also called Northwestern Maidu — or Koyoomk&#039;awi, as it is called in the language itself) is a part of the Maiduan language group. The word koyoo means, &quot;meadow&quot;, with the additional &#039;m&#039; being the adjective form of the word. &#039;Koyoo+ [m, adj.] k&#039;awi + [m, adj.] Ma&#039;a [tribe].&#039; It is spoken in California and is a severely endangered language, as only two or three persons remain who speak it as a first language are still living. As part of an effort to regain official recognition of one of the Konkow groups as an officially recognized tribe from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, an effort to provide language instruction amongst the descendants of the original tribe and affiliated family members has begun.<br /> One source supports the claim that Konkow had at least 9 dialects, designated today according to the locality in which each was spoken. These dialects were: Otaki; Mikchopdo; Cherokee; Eskeni; Pulga; Nemsu; Feather Falls; Challenge; and Bidwell Bar. Lexicon of each remains scant. In addition, there may have been many family variations within each dialect group; thus, certainly there was no one Konkow language, but Konkow means a phonologically distinct&lt;i&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=4034912 ..... full article at Wikipedia]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Location of Maidu, Northwest Language Speakers&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> http://llmap.org/languages/mjd/static_map.png?width=400&amp;height=300&amp;kilroywashere=.png<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=right&gt; <br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;h2&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main Country: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/united_states United States]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spoken In: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Regions: &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas] <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;ISO 639-3 Code: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;mjd&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Classification Taxonomy&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> [[All Languages]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Penutian Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Maiduan Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;[[Maidu, Northwest Language]]&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> <br /> __NOTOC__</div>

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