Mutsun

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Mutsun (San Juan Bautista)
Spoken in:	United States (California)
Total speakers:	extinct
Language family:	Penutian  Yok-Utian   Utian    Costanoan     Southern Ohlone      Mutsun (San Juan Bautista)
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	-
ISO 639-2:	nai
ISO 639-3:	css
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Mutsun is a name of one sub-group of the indigenous Ohlone people of California, as well as the name of the language they spoke.

Mutsun (also known as San Juan Bautista Costanoan) is an extinct Utian language in the Ohlone/Costanoan language family that was spoken in Northern California by the division of the Ohlone who lived in the Mission San Juan Bautista area (classified "Southern Ohlone" in ISO639-3). Ascencion Solorsano, who died in 1930, was the last native speaker of Mutsun. Mutsun went extinct from a gradual process of the Mutsun being forced to switch to speaking Spanish and English. The Spanish wrote a grammar of the language, and linguist John Peabody Harrington collected very extensive notes on the language from Solorsano. Harrington's field notes formed the basis of the grammar of Mutsun written by Marc Okrand as a University of California dissertation in 1977, which to this day remains the only grammar ever written of any Costanoan language. Many Mutsun people who live in California today, are trying to restore their language.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Consonants 1.2 Vowels 2 Vocabulary 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Consonants

	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal	Bilabial
Nasal	n /n/
Stop	t /t/		tR /t̠/		k /k/
Fricative		s /s/	sY /s̠/			h /h/
Approximant				y /j/			w /w/
Lateral approximant		l /l/
Affricate			tc /ʧ/
Trill	r /r/

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i /i/	u /u/
Close-mid		o /o/
Open-mid	e /ɛ/
Open		a /ɑ/

[edit] Vocabulary

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English	Mutsun
one	hemetca
two	tRhin
three	kaphan
four	utRit
five	parwes
six	nakitci
seven	takitci
eight	tayitmin
nine	pakki
ten	tansakte

[edit] References

• Okrand, Marc. 1977. "Mutsun Grammar". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

[edit] External links

• Amah-Mutsun Tribe Website
• The Mutsun Language Foundation
• Grammar of Mutsun by Arroyo de la Cuesta, Felipe (1842) (in Spanish)

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