Tamyen

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Tamyen is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tamyen canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Costanoan language
Native American language
Ohlone language
Utian language
extinct language
alternativeName Santa Clara Costanoan
Tamien
Thamien
associatedMission Mission Santa Clara de Asís
associatedTribe Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
closelyRelatedTo Chochenyo
Ramaytush
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentationStatus poorly documented
ethnicGroup Ohlone peoples
surface form: Ohlone people

Tamyen people
extinctionStatus no native speakers remain
geographicDistribution areas around present-day San Jose, California
glottologCode none
historicalEra Alta California (Spanish colony)
surface form: Spanish colonial California

pre-colonial California
ISO639-3 none
languageBranch Chochenyo Ohlone
surface form: Northern Ohlone
languageFamily Costanoan
Ohlone peoples
surface form: Ohlone

Utian
languageGroup Ohlone languages
surface form: San Francisco Bay Ohlone languages
languageTypology agglutinative language
partOf Ohlone linguistic continuum
region California, United States
surface form: California

Santa Clara Valley
revitalizationEfforts limited
spokenIn California, United States
surface form: California

San Francisco Bay Area
Santa Clara Valley
status extinct
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mutsun neighboringLanguage Tamyen
Rumsen relatedTo Tamyen
Karkin relatedTo Tamyen
Ramaytush relatedLanguage Tamyen
Costanoan hasLanguage Tamyen