Maidun: Konkow-pene Maidu-pene Nisenan-pen
Wintun: Wintu-pale-t Nomlaki-pale-t Patwin-pampa-ta
Yokuts: Main Valley-ponoi Palewyami-pungi Northern Valley-punoi
Kings River-punoi Tule-Kaweah-pongoi Buena Vista-pongoi
The Maidu language has one of the twelve California counties bearing their name. Hinton writes that the county of Yuba is a Maidu name. The history of the Maidun languages starts with an estimate of how many people there were, “Estimates of the entire Maiduan population in late prehistoric times vary between about 4,000 …show more content…
But, as my research went on, I learned that the Maidun were people who lived in Northern California, people who shared beautiful stories with one another, and people who are now trying to preserve their language. The Maidun or (Maiduan) language is a language that is part of the Penutian family and has three sub languages. These languages, live all across Northern California, more specifically near Sierra Nevada. Although, they do not have many speakers left, they are trying to preserve their language through documents of vocabulary, songs, and stories. Hopefully in the next 100 years, when looking back, we can see that the Native American languages were saved, with generations of new native