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Mutsun
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| Mutsun (San Juan Bautista) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | United States (California) | |
| Total speakers: | extinct | |
| Language family: | Penutian Yok-Utian Utian Costanoan Southern Ohlone Mutsun (San Juan Bautista) |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | - | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | css | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Mutsun is a name of one sub-group of the indigenous Ohlone people of California, as well as the name of the language they spoke.
Mutsun (also known as San Juan Bautista Costanoan) is an extinct Utian language in the Ohlone/Costanoan language family that was spoken in Northern California by the division of the Ohlone who lived in the Mission San Juan Bautista area (classified "Southern Ohlone" in ISO639-3). Ascencion Solorsano, who died in 1930, was the last native speaker of Mutsun. Mutsun went extinct from a gradual process of the Mutsun being forced to switch to speaking Spanish and English. The Spanish wrote a grammar of the language, and linguist John Peabody Harrington collected very extensive notes on the language from Solorsano. Harrington's field notes formed the basis of the grammar of Mutsun written by Marc Okrand as a University of California dissertation in 1977. Many Mutsun people who live in California today, are trying to restore their language.
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| Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Bilabial | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | n | ||||||
| Stop | t | t̠ | k | ||||
| Fricative | s | s̠ | h | ||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ||||||
| Affricate | ʧ | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ||
| Open | ɑ | ||
- a [ɑ]
- e [ɛ]
- h [h]
- i [i]
- k [k]
- l [l]
- m [m]
- n [n]
- o [o]
- r [r]
- s [s]
- sY [s̠]
- t [t]
- tR [t̠]
- tc [ʧ]
- u [u]
- w [w]
- y [j]
- one hemetca
- two tRhin
- three kaphan
- four utRit
- five parwes
- six nakitci
- seven takitci
- eight tayitmin
- nine pakki
- ten tansakte
- Okrand, Marc. 1977. "Mutsun Grammar". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
- Amah-Mutsun Tribe Website
- The Mutsun Language Foundation
- Grammar of Mutsun by Arroyo de la Cuesta, Felipe (1842) (in Spanish)
| Ohlone/Costanoan Indigenous People of California |
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| Sub-Groups: |
| Karkin • Chochenyo • Ramaytush • Tamyen • Awaswas • Mutsun • Rumsen • Chalon • List of Tribes & Villages |
| Culture: |
| Mythology • Traditional Narratives • Utian languages • Hunting & Gathering • Native American |
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