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
documentedBy Alfred L. Kroeber
John Peabody Harrington
Marc Okrand
ethnicGroup Mutsun people
linked to: Mutsun

Ohlone people
linked to: Ohlone peoples
extinctionPeriod 20th century
glottocode muts1242
hasAlternativeName San Juan Bautista Costanoan
linked to: San Juan Bautista

San Juan Bautista Ohlone
linked to: Rumsen 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 (Costanoan) language continuum
linked to: Ohlone languages
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 script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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 Rumsen Ohlone
linked to: Mutsun
Mutsun ethnicGroup Mutsun people
linked to: Mutsun
Rumsen relatedTo Mutsun
Ramaytush relatedLanguage Mutsun
Costanoan hasLanguage Mutsun
Mutsun language ethnicGroup Mutsun people
linked to: Mutsun