[2] Today, most Yawelmani speakers live on or near the Tule River Reservation.

[3] Academic sources frequently use the name Yawelmani while referring to the language, though tribe members more often use the name Yowlumne.

[3] When referencing their language, modern speakers of Yawelmani use the terms inyana (Indian), and yaw'lamnin ṭeexil (speech of the Yowlumne).

[3] A 2011 estimate by Victor Golla placed the number of fluent and semi-fluent Yawelmani speakers at "up to twenty-five"[4] In 1993, the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program piloted a series of language programs that included Yawelmani.

The program was reportedly effective in teaching conversational Yawelmani to tribal members without prior knowledge and increasing language use among elders.