Obispeño | |
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tiłhini[1] | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Californian coastal areas |
Ethnicity | yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash |
Extinct | 1917, with the death of Rosario Cooper |
Revival | 21st century[2] |
Chumashan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | obi |
Glottolog | obis1242 |
Obispeño (also known as tiłhini) is one of the extinct 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.[3]
Classification
Obispeño is classified as the sole member of the northern branch of the Chumashan language family. It has two dialects, a northern and southern dialect.[4]
Geographic distribution
Obispeño was spoken in the region of San Luis Obispo, California.
Orthography
The yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe Obispeño.[5]
References
- ^ "Rosario Cooper". Northern Chumash Tribe.
- ^ "Obispeño". California Language Archive. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
- ^ "Obispeño – Survey of California and Other Indian Languages". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
- ^ Mithun, Marianne (2006). The languages of native North America. Cambridge language surveys (Third printing 2006 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29875-9.
- ^ "Yak Tityu Tityu Yak Tilhini Northern Chumash (YTT)". YTT Northern Chumash Tribe. Retrieved 2024-07-21.