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The Tamcan spoke the Delta Yokuts language. The first Delta Yokuts vocabulary was recorded at Pleasanton, California by Alphonse Pinart in 1880. Pinart called the language "Tcholovones, or better Colovomnes" and wrote that it was a variant on the "Tulareños" languages spoken on the San Joaquin River and at Tulare Lake (now known to be the Yokuts language family).
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield (1843–1928) led a remarkable double life in the early decades of California statehood, living his boyhood as an adopted member of the Choinumni (Choinumne) branch of the Yokuts tribe in the San Joaquin Valley, then rejoining the dominant Anglo-American community throughout his long adulthood.
Yokuts is both plural and singular; Yokut, while common, is erroneous. [5] Yokut should only be used when referring specifically to the Tachi Yokut Tribe of Lemoore . Some of their descendants prefer to refer to themselves by their respective tribal names; they reject the term Yokuts,' saying that it is an exonym invented by English-speaking ...
Yokuts is a key member in the proposed Penutian language stock. Some linguists consider most relationships within Penutian to be undemonstrated (cf. Campbell 1997 [5]). Others consider a genetic relationship between Yokuts, Utian, Maiduan, Wintuan, and a number of Oregon languages to be definite (cf. DeLancey and Golla 1997 [6]).
The Choinumni were one of the many tribes of the Yokuts people that live in the San Joaquin Valley of California.The Choinumni lived on the Kings River.Their culture is especially well known from the account of Thomas Jefferson Mayfield who was raised among them, at a village, opposite the mouth of Sycamore Creek, on the south bank of the Kings River, just above, what is now Trimmer ...
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Yok-Utian is a proposed language family of California.It consists of the Yokuts language and the Utian language family.. While connections between Yokuts and Utian languages were noticed through attempts to reconstruct their proto-languages in 1986, [1] it was not until 1991 that Yok-Utian was proposed and named by Geoffrey Gamble.
Yokuts traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Yokuts people of the San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra Nevada foothills of central California. Yokuts narratives constitute one of the most abundantly documented oral literatures in the state.