The immersion school has since closed its doors and the language program now operates through the Cultural Resource Department for the Washoe Tribe.

It is a name the Tribe would like to gift to El Dorado County and South Lake Tahoe as a symbol of peace, prosperity and goodness.

(Jacobsen's lifelong work with Washo is described at the University of Nevada Oral History Program.

[11] Sequences not represented by a single letter in Washo almost always tend to occur in borrowed English words, such as the nd in kꞌindí (candy).

[12][13] In the area around Woodfords, California, the local Washo dialect substituted [θ] for /s/, thus, sí꞉su 'bird' was pronounced thithu.

Washo uses partial or total reduplication of verbs or nouns to indicate repetitive aspect or plural number.

For example, the suffix -leg indicates that the verb describes an event that took place in the recent past, usually earlier the previous day as seen in the Washo sentence, dabóʔo lew búʔlegi ('the white man fed us').