Central Pomo is one of the seven Pomoan languages

Pomoan languages

Pomoan is a family of endangered languages spoken in northern California by the Pomo people on the Pacific Coast. According to the 2000 census, there are 255 speakers of the languages...

 spoken in Northern California

Northern California

Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The San Francisco Bay Area , and Sacramento as well as its metropolitan area are the main population centers...

. It is currently an endangered language

Endangered language

An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. If eventually no one speaks the language at all it becomes an "extinct language"....

, with fewer than 10 speakers. It has a consonant inventory that is identical to the related Southern Pomo language with the following exceptions:

Central Pomo distinguishes between velar /k/, /kʰ/, /k'/ and uvular /q/, /qʰ/, /q'/.

Central Pomo lacks a non-ejective alveolar affricate (i.e., it does not have /ts/ as a phoneme).

Central Pomo does not have length, in the form of geminate root consonants, as found in Southern Pomo.

External links

• Central Pomo language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley documents, catalogs, and archives the indigenous languages of the Americas...