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This page brings together information in the form of hard-to-find published papers and unpublished work on the native languages of the central California missions: Carmel, San Juan Bautista, Soledad, San Antonio de Padua, San Miguel, and San Luis Obispo.
The languages known from these missions include: Rumsen (Costanoan/Ohlonean, Carmel); Esselen (Carmel and Soledad, and the territory inbetween), Mutsun (Costanoan/Ohlonean, San Juan Bautista), Chalon (Costanoan/Ohlonean, Soledad), Salinan (San Antonio, San Miguel), and ObispeÔo Chumash (Chumashan family).
Esselen and Salinan are language isolates, which means they are each a language family of one. Three of the languages (Rumsen, Mutsun, Chalon) belong the the Costanoan (or Ohlonean) subfamily of the Utian language family (the other subfamily includes the Miwok langauges). ObispeÔo is the most divergent member of the Chumashan family.
Future additions will include the following projects:
· "Mutsun Texts:' · "Mutsun Glossary"; · "Salinan Grammar"; · "Salinan Texts"; · "Salinan Glossary".
It is hoped that the Santa Barbara Mission Archive and Libary's mission will be fulfilled in a new dimension by having this essential information about the central missions available free of charge to interested parties as searchable downloads.
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF CALIFORNIA
Chalon
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