Rumsen language

Rumsen
San Carlos
Native to	United States
Region	California
Ethnicity	Rumsen people
Extinct	May 21st, 1939, with the death of Isabel Meadows^[1]
Language family	Yok-Utian Utian Costanoan Southern Rumsen
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in Southern Ohlone [css])
Glottolog	`rums1243`

The Rumsen language (also known as Rumsien, San Carlos Costanoan and Carmeleno) is one of eight Ohlone languages, historically spoken by the Rumsen people of Northern California. The Rumsen language was spoken from the Pajaro River to Point Sur, and on the lower courses of the Pajaro, as well as on the Salinas and Carmel Rivers, and the region of the present-day cities of Salinas, Monterey and Carmel.

Myth of the Coyote in the Rumsen language recorded by Alfred L. Kroeber in 1902

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History

One of eight languages within the Ohlone branch of the Utian family, it became one of two important native languages spoken at the Mission San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo founded in 1770, the other being the Esselen language.

The last fluent speaker of Rumsen was Isabel Meadows,^[1] who died in 1939. The Bureau of American Ethnology linguist John Peabody Harrington conducted very extensive fieldwork with Meadows in the last several years of her life. These notes, still mostly unpublished, now constitute the foundation for current linguistic research and revitalization efforts on the Rumsen language.^[1] The Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe has been in the process of reestablishing their language. They have begun efforts to teach their tribal members Rumsen and are working to complete a revised English - Rumsen Dictionary.^{[citation needed]}

Rumsen-speaking tribes

Dialects of the Rumsen language were spoken by four independent local tribes, including the Rumsen themselves, the Ensen of the Salinas vicinity, the Calendaruc of the central shoreline of Monterey Bay, and the Sargentaruc of the Big Sur Coast. The territory of the language group was bordered by Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Awaswas Ohlone to the north, the Mutsun Ohlone to the east, the Chalon Ohlone on the south east, and the Esselen to the south.^[2]

Phonology

Consonant phonemes^[3]
	Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m ⟨m⟩	n ⟨n⟩
Plosive	p ⟨p⟩	t ⟨t⟩	ʈ ⟨ṭ⟩		k ⟨k⟩	ʔ
Affricate		ts ⟨ts⟩		t͡ʃ ⟨č⟩
Fricative		s ⟨s⟩	ʂ ⟨ṣ⟩	ʃ ⟨š⟩	x ⟨x⟩
Approximant	w ⟨w⟩	l ⟨l⟩		j ⟨y⟩
Tap		ɾ ⟨r⟩
Trill		r ⟨rr⟩

Vowel phonemes^[3]
	Front	Back
Close	i ⟨i⟩	u ⟨u⟩
Mid	ɛ ⟨e⟩	o ⟨o⟩
Open		ɑ ⟨a⟩

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Hinton 2001:430
^ Milliken, Randall. 1987. Ethnohistory of the Rumsen. Papers in Northern California Anthropology No. 2. Salinas, CA: Coyote Press.
^ ^a ^b "John Peabody Harrington Papers". Archived from the original on 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2022-07-15.

References

Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat. 1994. Rumsen Seasonality and Population Dynamics. In The Ohlone Past and Present, pp. 183–197, Lowell J. Bean, editor. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press.
Hackel, Steven W. 2005. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2988-9
Hinton, Leanne. 2001. The Ohlone Languages, in The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice, pp. 425–432. Emerald Group Publishing ISBN 0-12-349354-4.
Kroeber, Alfred L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (map of villages, page 465)
Levy, Richard. 1978. Costanoan, in Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8 (California). William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. ISBN 0-16-004578-9 / 0160045754, pages 485–495.
Milliken, Randall. 1987. Ethnohistory of the Rumsen. Papers in Northern California Anthropology No. 2. Salinas, CA: Coyote Press.
Teixeira, Lauren. The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area, A Research Guide. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1997. ISBN 0-87919-141-4.

External links

Costanoan Rumsen Chino Tribe
Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation Tribal Website
"Rumsen / Southern Ohlone sound recordings". Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2012-07-20.
Spanish-Rumsen-Esselen Glossary, 1802

v t e Ohlone (Costanoan) indigenous people of California
Groups	Awaswas Rumsen Chalon Chochenyo Karkin Mutsun Ramaytush Tamyen Verona Band of Alameda County Yelamu List of tribes and villages
Culture	Religion Traditional narratives Hunting and gathering Native American
Languages	Awaswas Chalon Chochenyo Karkin Mutsun Ramaytush Rumsen Tamyen

Languages of California

Italics indicate extinct languages

Indigenous

Algic	Wiyot Yurok
Athabaskan	Tolowa Hupa Mattole Cahto Wailaki
Chumashan	Obispeño Cruzeño Purisimeño Ineseño Barbareño Ventureño
Ohlone	Karkin Chochenyo Ramaytush Tamyen Awaswas Mutsun Rumsen Chalon
Hokan	Chimariko Karuk Achomawi Atsugewi Northeastern Pomo Eastern Pomo Southeastern Pomo Northern Pomo Central Pomo Southern Pomo Kashaya Washo Mojave Kumeyaay Yana Yahi
Penutian	Klamath-Mudoc Yokuts Buena Vista Yokuts Gashowu Yokuts Kings River Yokuts Palewyami Tule-Kaweah Yokuts Valley Yokuts Wintu Bay Miwok Coast Miwok Lake Miwok Plains Miwok Central Sierra Miwok Northern Sierra Miwok Southern Sierra Miwok Valley Maidu Northeast Maidu Northwest Maidu Nisenan
Shastan	Konomihu New River Shasta Okwanuchu Shasta
Uto Aztecan	Cahuilla Cupeño Kawaiisu Kitanemuk Luiseño-Juaneño Mono Northern Paiute Panamint Serrano Tataviam Tongva Tübatulabal Ute
Wintuan	Nomlaki Patwin Southern Patwin Wintu
Yukian	Yuki, Wappo
Language isolates and unclassified	Esselen, Chimariko, Karuk, Salinan, Takelma Plains Sign Talk

Non-Indigenous

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Asian	Chinese Korean Tagalog Vietnamese
Francosign	American Sign Language

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