Yokuts language

Yokuts
Mariposa
Native to	United States
Region	San Joaquin Valley, California
Ethnicity	Yokuts
Native speakers	50 (including semispeakers) (2007)[1]
Language family	Yok-Utian? Yokuts
Dialects	Palewyami † Buena Vista † Tule–Kaweah † Gashowu † Kings River † Valley
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yok
Glottolog	yoku1255
ELP	Yokuts
Pre-contact distribution of the Yokuts language

Yokuts, formerly known as Mariposa, is an endangered language spoken in the interior of Northern and Central California in and around the San Joaquin Valley by the Yokuts people. The speakers of Yokuts were severely affected by disease, missionaries, and the Gold Rush. While descendants of Yokuts speakers currently number in the thousands, all constituent dialects apart from Valley Yokuts are now extinct.

The Yawelmani dialect of Valley Yokuts has been a focus of much linguistic research.