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Chumashan was a family of languages that were spoken on the southern California coast by Native American Chumash people, from the Coastal plains and valleys of San Luis Obispo to Malibu, neighboring inland and Transverse Ranges valleys and canyons east to bordering the San Joaquin Valley, to three adjacent Channel Islands: San Miguel ...
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The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and...
- Chumash people
Le lingue chumash sono una famiglia di lingue native dell' America Settentrionale che erano parlate dai Chumash lungo la costa della California orientale negli Stati Uniti, fra San Luis Obispo e Malibù e sulle Isole settentrionali del canale di California di San Miguel, Santa Cruz e Santa Rosa . Tutte le lingue di questa famiglia ...
Six Chumashan languages are attested, all now extinct. However, most of them are in the process of revitalization, with language programs and classes. Contemporary Chumash people now prefer to refer to their languages by native names rather than the older names based on the local missions.
Chumashan was a family of languages that were spoken on the southern California coast by Native American Chumash people, from the Coastal plains and valleys of San Luis Obispo to Malibu, neighboring inland and Transverse Ranges valleys and canyons east to bordering the San Joaquin Valley, to three adjacent Channel Islands: San Miguel, Santa ...
The various Chumashan languages are generally divided into three subfamilies: Northern Chumash (Obispeño), Island Chumash (Cruzeño, also known as Ysleño), and Central Chumash (Ventureño, Purisimeño, Barbareño, and Ineseño).
Obispeño (also known as tiłhini) was one of the Chumash Native American languages previously spoken along the coastal areas of California. The primary source of documentation on the language is from the work of linguist J. P. Harrington.
