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Purisimeño language

Purisimeño
Native to California
Region Lompoc
Extinct (date missing)
Chumashan
  • Southern
    • Central
      • Purisimeño
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog puri1259

Purisimeño was one of the Chumashan languages traditionally spoken along the coastal areas of Southern California near Lompoc. It was also spoken at the La Purisima Mission.

A vocabulary of "La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash)" was collected by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1884.John P. Harrington also documented the language, and wrote a sketch of the grammar.

Dr. Timothy Henry of the Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (WIELD) created a dictionary of the language.



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