Chico language

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. It may be a divergent dialect of Konkow or an independent language.

• Maidu
• Maiduan languages

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5.
• 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.

• OLAC resources in and about the Valley Maidu language