Northeastern Russian River Pomo

Northeastern Pomo, also known as Salt Pomo or Chhé'ee Fókaa ('salt people'), is a Pomoan language of Northern California. Descendants of Chhé'ee Fókaa speakers are members of the Chhé'ee Fókaa Band of Northeastern Pomo; There are no living fluent speakers, but several elders retain significant linguistic knowledge. It was spoken along Stony Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River in the vicinity of Stonyford, California.

Chhé'ee Fókaa was one of seven mutually unintelligible Pomoan languages spoken in Northern California. Unlike the other six Pomoan languages (going to north to south: Northern Pomo, Central Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, Kashaya Pomo, Southern Pomo), Chhé'ee Fókaa was not spoken in an area immediately contiguous with any other Pomoan-speaking territory. Chhé'ee Fókaa speakers were ringed by speakers of Yuki, Nomlaki, and Patwin; Yuki is unrelated to Pomoan or Nomlaki and Patwin, both of which are within the Wintu language family.

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