Editing Timbisha language (section)

==Geographic distribution==
Timbisha was formerly spoken in the region between the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]] mountains of eastern [[California]] and the region just to the east of [[Death Valley]] in [[Nevada]]. Principal valleys where villages were located were (from west to east) [[Owens Valley]], [[Indian Wells Valley]], [[Saline Valley]], [[Panamint Valley]], and [[Death Valley]]. In addition, there were villages along the southern slopes of the [[Kawich Range]] in Nevada.

===Dialects===
Each valley had its own variety of Timbisha with mostly [[Lexicon|lexical]] differences between them. There was, however, a general loss of ''{{IPA|h}}'' as one moved west across Timbisha territory with ''{{IPA|h}}'' virtually gone in [[Owens Valley]] varieties. McLaughlin's grammar is based on the far eastern variety from [[Beatty, Nevada]],<ref name="panamint">{{cite book |last1=McLaughlin |first1=John E. |title=Panamint Phonology and Morphology |date=1987 |publisher=[[University of Kansas]] PhD dissertation}}</ref> while Dayley's is based on a central variety from [[Death Valley]].<ref name="1989a">{{cite journal |last1=Dayley |first1=Jon P. |title=Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar |journal=University of California Publications in Linguistics |date=1989 |volume=115 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley}}</ref>