Obispeño language
 | An editor has determined that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability. (July 2024) |
| Obispeño | |
|---|---|
| tiłhini | |
| 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[1] |
Chumashan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | obi |
| Glottolog | obis1242 |
 Obispeño | |
 Obispeño is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2] | |
Obispeño (also known as tiłhini[3]) 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.[4]
Classification
[edit]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.[5]
Geographic distribution
[edit]Obispeño was spoken in the region of San Luis Obispo, California.
Orthography
[edit]The yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe uses an alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (and the Americanist phonetic notation) to transcribe Obispeño.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Obispeño". California Language Archive. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
- ^ "Rosario Cooper". Northern Chumash Tribe. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
- ^ "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.
External links
[edit]- Obispeño language — overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.
- Language-archives.org: OLAC resources in and about the Obispeño language
- California Language Archives: Obispeño language
- Obispeño language at the Northern Chumash tribe website Archived 2021-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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