Extinct Athabaskan language of California
Cahto (also spelled Kato) is an extinct Athabaskan language that was formerly spoken by the Kato people of the Laytonville and Branscomb area at the head of the South Fork of the Eel River. It is one of the four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Most Kato speakers were bilingual in Northern Pomo and some also spoke Yuki.
Phonology
Consonants
Cahto has 26 consonant phonemes and 30 phones.
Vowels
Cahto has 9 vowel phonemes (including the diphthong) and 12 phones.
References
- ^ Golla, Victor (2011). California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4. OCLC 668191602.
- Goddard, Pliny Earle; Bill Ray (1909). Kato texts. The University Press. Retrieved 24 August 2012. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnography 5(3):65-238.
- Goddard, Pliny Earle (1912). Elements of the Kato Language. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnography 11(1):1-176.
- Goddard, Pliny Earle (1916). Elements of the Kato language. University of California Press. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- Golla, Victor (2011). California Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-052-026667-4.
External links
- Kato language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Kato Language (Cahto), nativelanguages.org
- The Cahto ("Kato") Language
- Experimental Cahto lexical database
- OLAC resources in and about the Kato language
- Kato Bibliography
- Kato basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
