Chico language

Chico
Valley Maidu
Spoken in	United States
Region	California
Native speakers	0
Language family	Maiduan Chico
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vmv

Chico (also Valley Maidu) is an extinct Maiduan language formerly spoken by Maidu peoples who lived in Northern California, between Sacramento and the Sierra foothills.

See also

• Maidu
• Maiduan languages

Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-159-6. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
• Heizer, Robert F. (1966). Languages, territories, and names of California Indian tribes.
• Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23228-9 (hbk); ISBN 978-0-521-29875-9.

External links

• Ethnologue: Maidu, Valley