Tags: Language.
Nisenan (or alternatively Southern Maidu Neeshenam Nishinam Pujuni or Wapumni) is a nearly extinct Maiduan language spoken by the Nisenan (or Southern Maidu etc. as above) people of central California in the foothills of the Sierras in the whole of the American Bear and Yuba river drainages.Ethnologue states that there is only one speaker left. However it is believed that there are a few other speakers left although the number is not known.