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`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.

Area where the Utian languages were spoken

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. Many Mutsun people who live in California today, are trying to restore their language.

1 Phonology
- 1.1 Consonants
- 1.2 Vowels
2 Orthography
3 Vocabulary
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Consonants

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

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid		o
Open-mid	ɛ
Open		ɑ

[edit] Orthography

a [ɑ]
e [ɛ]
h [h]
i [i]
k [k]
l [l]
m [m]
n [n]
o [o]
r [r]
s [s]
sY [s̠]
t [t]
tR [t̠]
tc [ʧ]
u [u]
w [w]
y [j]

[edit] Vocabulary

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

Ohlone/Costanoan Indigenous People of California
Sub-Groups:
Karkin • Chochenyo • Ramaytush • Tamyen • Awaswas • Mutsun • Rumsen • Chalon • List of Tribes & Villages
Culture:
Mythology • Traditional Narratives • Utian languages • Hunting & Gathering • Native American