Rumsen language

E370144

Rumsen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language formerly spoken in the Monterey Bay area of California.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Rumsen language canonical 4

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Costanoan language
Native American language
Ohlone language
extinct language
alternativeName Rumsien
San Carlos Costanoan
associatedMission Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
category Extinct languages of North America
Indigenous languages of California
Ohlone languages
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy Alfred L. Kroeber
John Peabody Harrington
endonym Rumsen
ethnicGroup Rumsen people
extinction 20th century
glottocode rums1235
hasDialect Carmel Rumsen
Carmel Rumsen
surface form: Monterey Rumsen

Soledad Rumsen
hasLinguisticFeature complex verbal morphology
rich case-marking on nouns
verb-final word order tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
ISO639-3 rou
languageFamily Utian languages
Yok-Utian (proposed)
neighboringLanguages Awaswas language
Esselen language
Mutsun language
partOf Costanoan branch of Utian
region Big Sur region of California
surface form: Big Sur coast

Carmel River
Carmel Valley
Central California
Monterey Peninsula
Salinas Valley
revitalizationStatus subject of limited revitalization efforts
spokenIn California, United States
surface form: California

Monterey Bay
surface form: Monterey Bay area

United States of America
surface form: United States
status extinct
subfamilyOf Ohlone languages
surface form: Ohlone (Costanoan) languages
usedBy Rumsen tribe
usedUntil early 1900s
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Ohlone languages hasMember Rumsen language
Ohlone languages languageFamilyOf Rumsen language
Awaswas relatedTo Rumsen language
Chalon language relatedTo Rumsen language