Purisimeño language

Purisimeño
Native toCalifornia, United States
RegionLompoc
Extinctearly 1900s
Chumashan
  • Southern
    • Central
      • Purisimeño
Language codes
ISO 639-3puy
Glottologpuri1259
  Purisimeño
Purisimeño is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Purisimeño was one of the Chumashan languages traditionally spoken along the coastal areas of Southern California near Lompoc. It was also spoken at the La Purisima Mission.[2]

A vocabulary of "La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash)" was collected by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1884.[3] John P. Harrington also documented the language, and wrote a sketch of the grammar.[4]

Dr. Timothy Henry of the Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (WIELD) created a dictionary of the language.[5]

Writing system

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Purisimeño alphabet[citation needed]
’ a e ǝ h i k l ~ ł l̓ m m̓ n n̓ o p pʰ p̓ q qʰ q̓ s
sʰ s̓ š šʰ š̓ t tʰ t̓ ts tsʰ ts̓ tš tšʰ tš̓ u w w̓ x ~ x̂ x̓ y y̓

References

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  1. ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
  2. ^ "Purisimeño". Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
  3. ^ Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee. "Santa Barbara (Barbareno Chumash) and La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash) vocabularies September 18, 1884". Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  4. ^ "Papers of John P. Harrington, Part 3, Southern California Basin". California Language Archive. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  5. ^ "Purisimeño Project".
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