Purisimeño language

Purisimeño was one of the Chumashan languages traditionally spoken along the coastal areas of Southern California near Lompoc. It was also spoken at the La Purisima Mission.[1]

Purisimeño
Native toCalifornia, United States
RegionLompoc
Extinct(date missing)
Chumashan
  • Southern
    • Central
      • Purisimeño
Language codes
ISO 639-3puy
Glottologpuri1259
La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

A vocabulary of "La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash)" was collected by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1884.[2] John P. Harrington also documented the language, and wrote a sketch of the grammar.[3]

Dr. Timothy Henry of the Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (WIELD) created a dictionary of the language.[4]

Writing system
Purisimeño alphabet
’aeǝh ikl ~ łl̓m m̓nn̓op pʰp̓qqʰq̓ s
sʰs̓ššʰ š̓ttʰt̓ts tsʰts̓tštšʰtš̓ uww̓x ~ x̂x̓ yy̓

References
  1. "Purisimeño". Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
  2. Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee. "Santa Barbara (Barbareno Chumash) and La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash) vocabularies September 18, 1884". Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  3. "Papers of John P. Harrington, Part 3, Southern California Basin". California Language Archive. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  4. "Purisimeño Project".
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