{{Short description|Extinct Pomoan language of California}} {{Infobox language | name = Central Pomo | states = United States | region = Northern California | extinct = by 2000 | ref = e23 | familycolor = hokan | fam1 = Hokan? | fam2 = Pomoan | fam3 = Western | fam4 = Southern | iso3 = poo | glotto = cent2138 | glottorefname = Central Pomo | map = File:Pomoan languages map multicolored.svg | mapcaption = The seven Pomoan languages with an indication of their pre-contact distribution within California; Central Pomo in {{legend inline|#4bb048|green}} }}
'''Central Pomo''' is an extinct Pomoan language spoken in Northern California. Pre-contact speakers of all the Pomoan languages have been estimated at 8,000 all together. This estimation was from the American anthropologist Alfred Kroeber.
"The Central Pomo language was traditionally spoken from the Russian River southwest of Clear Lake to the Pacific coast. There were settlements along the Russian River (in the southern Ukiah Valley, in Hopland Valley, and further south near the Sonoma County line), in the coastal region (at Manchester, Point Arena, and at the mouth of the Gualala River), and in the region between the two (around Yorkville and in Anderson Valley)."<ref>{{Cite web | title = Central Pomo | work = Survey of California and Other Indian Languages | access-date = 2013-01-14 | url = http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/languages/central-pomo.php }}</ref>
It has a consonant inventory that is identical to the related Southern Pomo language with the following exceptions:
Central Pomo distinguishes velar {{IPA|/k/, /kʰ/, /kʼ/}} from uvular {{IPA|/q/, /qʰ/, /qʼ/}}. It lacks a non-ejective alveolar affricate (i.e., it does not have /ts/ as a phoneme), and does not have length, in the form of geminate root consonants, as found in Southern Pomo.
As of 2013, a transcription project of Central Pomo materials collected by J.P. Harrington is underway.<ref>{{Cite web | title = What matters to Lori Laiwa? Reviving her tribal language. | work = UC Davis: Discover What Matters | access-date = 2013-01-14 | url = http://discoverwhatmatters.ucdavis.edu/discover/what-matters/index/id/82386/ | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100611031832/http://discoverwhatmatters.ucdavis.edu/discover/what-matters/index/id/82386/ | archive-date = 2010-06-11 }}</ref>
==Phonology== {| class="wikitable IPA" |+<big>Consonants</big> ! colspan="3" | !Bilabial !Dental !Alveolar !Postalveolar !Palatal !Velar !Uvular !Glottal |- align="center" ! rowspan="4" |Stop ! colspan="2" |<small>Voiced</small> |b | |d | | | | | |- align="center" ! rowspan="3" |<small>Voiceless</small> !<small>Plain</small> |p |t̪ |t | | |k |q |ʔ |- align="center" !<small>Aspirated</small> |pʰ |t̪ʰ |tʰ | | |kʰ |qʰ | |- align="center" !<small>Ejective</small> |pʼ |t̪ʼ |tʼ | | |kʼ |qʼ | |- align="center" ! colspan="2" rowspan="3" |Affricate !<small>Plain</small> | | |t͡s |t͡ʃ | | | | |- align="center" !<small>Aspirated</small> | | | |t͡ʃʰ | | | | |- align="center" !<small>Ejective</small> | | |t͡sʼ |t͡ʃʼ | | | | |- align="center" ! colspan="3" |Nasal |m | |n | | | | | |- align="center" ! colspan="3" |Fricative | | |s |ʃ | | | |h |- align="center" ! colspan="3" |Approximant |w | |l | |j | | | |} {| class="wikitable" |+<big>Vowels</big> ! rowspan="2" | ! colspan="2" |Front ! colspan="2" |Central ! colspan="2" |Back |- align="center" !<small>short</small> !<small>long</small> !<small>short</small> !<small>long</small> !<small>short</small> !<small>long</small> |- align="center" !Close |i |iː | | |u |uː |- align="center" !Mid |e |eː | | |o |oː |- align="center" !Open | | |a |aː | | |} /e/ may also be heard as [ɛ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cimcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CentralPomolessonPlans.pdf|title=PDF Central Pomo Lesson Plans - CIMCC}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://cla.berkeley.edu/languages/central-pomo.html Central Pomo language] overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages *[http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100\hok\pom&limit=-1 Central Pomo basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database] *[http://www.language-archives.org/language/poo OLAC resources in and about the Central Pomo language] *[https://cimcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CentralPomolessonPlans.pdf Central Pomo Lesson Plans - CIMCC] [PDF] *{{Cite web |title = Central Pomo |work = California Language Archive |access-date = 2013-01-14 |url = http://cla.berkeley.edu/language/272?search_within_string=&tab=collections |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130513141241/http://cla.berkeley.edu/language/272?search_within_string=&tab=collections# |archive-date = 2013-05-13 |url-status = dead }}
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