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
documentationStatus poorly documented
ethnicGroup Ohlone people
linked to: Ohlone peoples

Tamyen people
extinctionStatus no native speakers remain
geographicDistribution areas around present-day San Jose, California
glottologCode none
historicalEra Spanish colonial California
pre-colonial California
ISO639-3 none
languageBranch Northern Ohlone
linked to: Chochenyo Ohlone
languageFamily Costanoan
Ohlone
linked to: Ohlone peoples

Utian
languageGroup San Francisco Bay Ohlone languages
linked to: Ohlone languages
languageTypology agglutinative language
partOf Ohlone linguistic continuum
region California
Santa Clara Valley
revitalizationEfforts limited
spokenIn California
San Francisco Bay Area
Santa Clara Valley
status extinct
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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