Maiduan
Maidun, Pujunan
Geographic distribution	California
Ethnicity	Maidu,Konkow,Nisenan
Linguistic classification	Penutian? Maiduan
Subdivisions	Maidu† Konkow Nisenan† Chico† ?
Language codes
Glottolog	maid1262
Pre-contact distribution of Maiduan languages
Pre-contact distribution of Maiduan languages (California detail map)

Maiduan (alsoMaidun,Pujunan) is a smallendangered language family of northeasternCalifornia.

The Maiduan consists of four languages:

The languages have similarsound systems but differ significantly in terms of grammar. They are notmutually intelligible, even though many works often refer to all of the speakers of these languages asMaidu. The Chico dialects are little known due to scanty documentation, so their precise genetic relationship to the other languages probably cannot be determined (Mithun 1999), and in any case may have been not a fourth Maiduan language, but widely divergent dialects of Konkow (Ultan 1967).

Three of the languages wentextinct by approximately the year 2000. Konkow was reported to have three elderly speakers in 2007.^[1]

Maiduan is often considered in variousPenutian phylum proposals. It was one of the original members of California Penutian (the Penutian "core").

• Maidu

• Callaghan, Catherine A. (1997). "Evidence for Yok-Utian",International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 18–64.doi:10.1086/466313JSTOR 1265864
• Heizer, Robert F. (1966).Languages, territories, and names of California Indian tribes. University of California Press.
• Mithun, Marianne. (1999).The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk);ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
• Shipley, William. (1961). "Maidu and Nisenan: A Binary Survey",International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan., 1961), pp. 46–51.doi:10.1086/464602JSTOR 1264141
• Ultan, Russell. (1964). "Proto-Maidun phonology,"International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct., 1964) pp. 355-370.doi:10.1086/464795JSTOR 1263530
• Ultan, Russell. (1967)."Konkow Grammar," unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California at Berkeley

Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms atAppendix:Proto-Maidun reconstructions

• Maidu, An Illustrative Sketch
• Maidu Bibliography

• Maiduan languages
• Maidu
• Endangered Maiduan languages
• Indigenous languages of California
• Penutian languages
• Language families

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