Rumsen

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Rumsen is a now-extinct Native American language formerly spoken by the Rumsen Ohlone people of the central California coast, traditionally classified within the Costanoan (Ohlone) branch of the Utian language family.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Rumsen canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
extinct language
language
associatedWith Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
Monterey Bay area
linked to: Monterey Bay Area
country United States
culturalContext Ohlone culture
documentedBy John Peabody Harrington
documentedIn early 20th century
ethnicGroup Rumsen Ohlone
extinctionCause colonial disruption and language shift
glottologCode rums1234
hasAlternativeName Carmel River Costanoan
linked to: Carmel River

Rumsien
San Carlos Costanoan
hasDialect Carmel Mission dialect
Carmel River dialect
Monterey dialect
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
word order SOV
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasResourceType field notes
grammatical sketches
wordlists
ISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code
isPartOf Ohlone linguistic continuum
linked to: Ohlone languages
languageBranch Costanoan
Ohlone
languageFamily Utian
partOf Costanoan branch
linked to: Costanoan

Ohlone branch
Utian language family
linked to: Utian languages
region California
relatedTo Awaswas
Chochenyo
Mutsun
Ramaytush
Tamyen
revitalizationEffort community-based language reclamation
spokenBy Rumsen Ohlone people
linked to: Ohlone peoples
spokenIn central California coast
status extinct
subclassOf Costanoan language
linked to: Costanoan languages

Ohlone language
linked to: Ohlone languages
timeOfExtinction 20th century
usedIn Catholic mission records
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Mutsun neighboringLanguage Rumsen
Karkin relatedTo Rumsen
Ramaytush relatedLanguage Rumsen
Costanoan hasLanguage Rumsen
Rumsen language endonym Rumsen