Kawaiisu Language

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The Kawaiisu language belonged to the Shoshonean branch of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family, and were a more immediate off-shoot, apparently, of the Chemehuevi.

Kawaiisu Indians. So-called by the Yokuts; the signification of the word is unknown.

Location. In the Tehachapi Mountains of California

Population. Kroeber estimates an aboriginal Kawaiisu population of about 500 and a 1925 population of nearly 150. (SeeAlliklik.)