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Yo⋅kuts

  [yoh-kuhts]
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–noun, plural -kuts for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian group of small tribes speaking related dialects and occupying the San Joaquin Valley of California and the adjoining eastern foothill regions. Nearly all the Valley Yokuts are extinct; some foothill groups remain.
2. a Penutian family of languages spoken by the Yokuts.
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Yo·kuts   (yō'kŭts)   
n.   pl. Yokuts

    1. A group of Native American peoples formerly inhabiting the southern San Joaquin Valley and adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada, with present-day descendants in the same area.

    2. A member of this group.

  2. Any or all of the languages of the Yokuts peoples.

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Yokuts

North American Indians speaking a Penutian language and who historically inhabited the San Joaquin Valley and the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of the Fresno River in what is now California, U.S. The Yokuts were traditionally divided into tribelets, perhaps as many as 50, each having a dialect, territory, and name of its own.

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