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Revision as of 11:10, 29 September 2010
Barbareño | |
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Region | Southern Californian coastal areas |
Extinct | 1965, with the death of Mary Yee |
Chumashan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | nai |
ISO 639-3 | boi |
ELP | Barbareño |
Barbareño is one of the extinct Chumash languages, a group of Native American languages previously spoken along the coastal areas of Southern California from as far north as San Luis Obispo to as far south as Malibu, California. The last first-language speaker of Barbareño was Mary Yee.[1]
Classification
Barbareño belongs to the Central Branch of the Southern Chumashan languages. Barbareño and the closely related Ineseño may have been the a dialect of the same language.
Geographic distribution
Barbareño was spoken in the region of Santa Barbara, California. It became extinct in 1965 with the death of Mary Yee.
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar/ Palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | plain | m | n | ||||
glottalized | ˀm | ˀn | |||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | k | q | ʔ | |
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | qʼ | |||
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | qʰ | |||
Affricate | plain | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||
ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | |||||
aspirated | t͡sʰ | t͡ʃʰ | |||||
Fricative | plain | s | ʃ | x | h | ||
ejective | sʼ | ʃʼ | xʼ | ||||
aspirated | sʰ | ʃʰ | |||||
Approximant | plain | l | j | w | |||
glottalized | ˀl | ˀj | ˀw |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Open | e | a | o |
References
- ^ Poser, William J (2004). "On the status of Chumash sibilant harmony". Ms., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]
- Beeler, M. S. (1970), "Sibilant Harmony in Chumash", International Journal of American Linguistics, 36 (1): 14–17, doi:10.1086/465084
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External links
- Barbareño language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages