Yokuts

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Y0023700 (yō′kŭts)n. pl. Yokuts 1. A member of a group of Native American peoples formerly inhabiting the southern San Joaquin Valley and adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada, with present-day populations in the same area.2. Any or all of the languages of the Yokuts peoples.

Yo•kuts

(ˈyoʊ kʌts)

n., pl. -kuts. 1. a member of any of a group of American Indian peoples of the San Joaquin Valley and foothills of the Sierra Nevada. 2. the speech of the Yokuts, usu. taken as a continuum of dialects constituting a single language.

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Noun	1.	Yokuts - a Penutian language spoken by the Yokuts in the San Joaquin ValleyMariposanPenutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
	2.	Yokuts - a member of the North American Indian people of the San Joaquin ValleyPenutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages

Yokuts

(yō`ko͝ots), Native North Americans of S California. Their culture was essentially that of the California cultural area, and their basketry and pictographs are notable. In the late 18th cent. the Yokuts population was about 18,000; in 1990 it was under 3,000. The Yokuts, or Mariposan, languages are a branch of the Penutian linguistic family (see Native American LanguagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
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Bibliography

See H. F. Hughes, The Valley of the Yokuts (1940).

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noun a Penutian language spoken by the Yokuts in the San Joaquin Valley

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noun a member of the North American Indian people of the San Joaquin Valley

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