Mutsun

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Mutsun is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the central coastal region of California.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Mutsun canonical 4
Mutsun people 2
Rumsen Ohlone 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Costanoan language
Ohlone language
extinct language
language
associatedWith Mission San Juan Bautista records
causeOfEndangerment language shift to English
language shift to Spanish
missionization in California
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy Alfred L. Kroeber
John Peabody Harrington
Marc Okrand
ethnicGroup Mutsun self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mutsun people

Ohlone peoples
surface form: Ohlone people
extinctionPeriod 20th century
glottocode muts1242
hasAlternativeName San Juan Bautista
surface form: San Juan Bautista Costanoan

Rumsen Ohlone
surface form: San Juan Bautista Ohlone
hasDialect San Juan Bautista dialect
hasLinguisticFeature case-marking on nouns
complex aspect system
derivational morphology for valency change
rich verbal morphology
verb-final word order (tendency)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (as analyzed in some descriptions)
rich consonant inventory typical of Ohlone languages
hasResource Mutsun dictionaries and wordlists
Mutsun grammar by Marc Okrand
historicalPeriodOfUse Spanish colonial period in California
early American period in California
pre-contact era
iso639-3Code css
languageFamily Costanoan
Ohlone
neighboringLanguage Awaswas
Chochenyo
Rumsen
Tamyen
partOf Ohlone languages
surface form: Ohlone (Costanoan) language continuum
region central coastal California
revitalizationEffort community-based documentation projects
language classes for Mutsun descendants
spokenAt Mission San Juan Bautista
status extinct
subfamilyOf Utian languages
usedIn everyday communication among Mutsun people (historically)
traditional ceremonial contexts (historically)
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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

Ohlone peoples hasSubgroup Mutsun
this entity surface form: Rumsen Ohlone
Mutsun ethnicGroup Mutsun self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mutsun people
Rumsen relatedTo Mutsun
Ramaytush relatedLanguage Mutsun
Costanoan hasLanguage Mutsun
Mutsun language ethnicGroup Mutsun
this entity surface form: Mutsun people