Pomoan languages
（重定向自Kulanapan）
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![The seven Pomoan languages with an indication of their pre-contact distribution within California. Of the current speakers of these languages, many live within the same areas.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Pomoan_languages_map.svg5213.png")
![The current consensus view of the internal relationships of the Pomoan family, based on Oswalt (1964).](/Images/godic/202501/22/Pomoan_family_tree.svg5213.png")
The Pomoan, or Pomo /ˈpoʊmoʊ/, languages are a small family of Native Californian languages spoken by the Pomo people who formerly occupied the valley of the Russian River and the Clear Lake basin. The Pomoan languages are severely endangered – with the exception of Kashaya, which had few dozen speakers in the 1990s, they are spoken by only a handful of elderly people. Northern Pomo and Northeastern Pomo are without known speakers and presumed to be extinct.