| Chochenyo | |
|---|---|
| Čočeño | |
| Native to | United States (California) |
| Ethnicity | Chochenyo people |
| Extinct | 1934, with the death of José Guzmán[1] |
| Revival | early 2000s |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included in cst [cst]) |
| Glottolog | east2548 |
| ELP | San Francisco Bay Costanoan (shared) |
Chochenyo (also called Chocheño, Northern Ohlone and East Bay Costanoan) is the spoken language of the Chochenyo people. Chochenyo is one of the Ohlone languages in the Utian family.
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Description and history
Linguistically, Chochenyo, Tamyen and Ramaytush are thought to have been dialects of a single language, but Tamyen and Ramaytush are very poorly attested. The speech of the last two native speakers of Chochenyo was documented in the 1920s in the unpublished fieldnotes of the Bureau of American Ethnology linguist John Peabody Harrington. The final native speaker of the language was José Guzmán who died in 1934 in Niles, California.
The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, which (as of 2007)[2] is petitioning for U.S. federal recognition, has made efforts to revive the language. As of 2004, "the Chochenyo database being developed by the tribe ... [contained] from 1,000 to 2,000 basic words."[3][1] By 2009, many students were able to carry on conversations in the Chochenyo language. Through both successful word formation, as well as extending documented words, the Chochenyo dictionary has grown significantly throughout the early 21st century.[4] During the canonization of Saint Junípero Serra on September 23, 2015, the first reading at Mass was read in Chochenyo by Vincent Medina.[5]
Phonology
Consonants[6]
| Labial | Dental/ alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hard | soft | |||||||
| Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩ | nʲ ⟨nY⟩ | |||||
| Plosive | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩ | ʈ ⟨ṭ⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | |||
| Affricate | ts ⟨ts⟩ | tʃ ⟨č⟩ | ||||||
| Fricative | s ⟨s⟩ | ʃ ⟨š⟩ | x ⟨x⟩ | h ⟨h⟩ | ||||
| Approximant | w ⟨w⟩ | l ⟨l⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | |||||
| Flap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ | |||||||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | |
| Open | ɑ |
The vowels can be long or short. Prolongation is shown by repeating the vowel.
- oo is pronounced /oː/, not /uː/
References
- ^ a b "California magazine". Apr 4, 2008. Archived from the original on April 4, 2008. Retrieved Dec 18, 2019.
- ^ Ron Russell (2007-03-28). "The Little Tribe That Could. As descendants of San Francisco's aboriginal people, the Muwekma Ohlone Indian tribe seldom gets much respect. But that could be about to change". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
- ^ Kathleen Maclay (2004-06-04). "06.04.2004 - Conferences focus on saving native languages". UC Berkeley News. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ^
Ohlone, Northern at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Canonization Mass for Junipero Serra (in Latin, Spanish, English, and Chochenyo). Washington: C-SPAN. September 23, 2015. 67 minutes in. Archived from the original on 2023-08-14. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ a b Harrington, John Peabody. "Chochenyo Linguistics Notes". siris-archives.si.edu. Smithsonian Institution.
External links
- Chocheyno, California Language Archive
- Chochenyo language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Chochenyo revitalization – language at UCB "Faith in Words" 2004 [archived version]
- Muwekma Ohlone Tribe website
- The Little Tribe That Could
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This page was last edited on 4 December 2023, at 15:11