Purisimeño | |
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Native to | California |
Region | Lompoc |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Chumashan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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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.