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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Washo Language,Washoe

<b>Description:</b>

The Washo language (also Washoe) is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California–Nevada border in the drainages of the Truckee and Carson Rivers, especially around Lake Tahoe. While there are very few speakers of Washo today (only 10 according to some; 252 according to the 2000 US Census), there are Washo-language programs aimed at increasing the number of proficient speakers. The speakers of Washo at the end of the twentieth century included 64 individuals between the ages of 5 and 17, 4 of whom have limited English proficiency.
Ethnographic Washo speakers belonged to the Great Basin culture area and they were the only non-Numic group of that area. The language has borrowed from the neighboring Uto-Aztecan, Maiduan and Miwokan languages and is connected to both the Great Basin and California sprachbunds.
Washo shows very little geographic variation. Jacobsen (1986:108) wrote, "When there are two variants of a feature, generally one is found in a more northerly area and the other in a more southerly one, but the lines separating the two areas for the different features do not always coincide."
Washo is not in the same language family as any<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=710560 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Washo language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_was_detail-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_was_detail-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Grammar:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_was_morsyn-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_was_morsyn-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_was_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_was_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/united_states United States]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>was</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Hokan Group]]

    [[Washo Group]]

      <b>[[Washo language]]</b>

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