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    Chumashan was a family of languages that were spoken on the southern California coast by Native American Chumash people, from the Coastal plains and valleys...
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    The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now Kern, San Luis Obispo,...
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  • up Chumash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chumash may refer to: Chumash (Judaism), a Hebrew word for the Pentateuch, used in Judaism Chumash people...
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  • a member of the extinct Chumashan languages, a group of Native American languages previously spoken by the Chumash people along the coastal areas of Southern...
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  • undergoing processes of language revitalization. As of 2013, the Barbareno Chumash Council is engaged in ongoing efforts to revive the language. Two of its members...
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    The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Chumash, an indigenous people of California, in Santa Barbara. Their...
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  • Cruzeño, also known as Isleño (Ysleño) or Island Chumash, was one of the Chumashan languages spoken along the coastal areas of Southern California. It...
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  • the Chumash Native American languages previously spoken along the coastal areas of California. The primary source of documentation on the language is from...
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  • Maria Solares (category Chumash people)
    woman belonging to the Chumash people, notable for her association with documenting and preserving the Samala Chumash language and culture. Maria has...
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    Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash)" was collected by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1884. John P. Harrington also documented the language, and wrote a sketch of...
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    Chumash (also Ḥumash; Hebrew: חומש, pronounced [χuˈmaʃ] or pronounced [ħuˈmaʃ] or Yiddish: pronounced [ˈχʊməʃ]; plural Ḥumashim) is a Torah in printed...
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    inclusion of the Tequistlatecan languages has also not received much support.[citation needed] The Chumash languages were once included, but that position...
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    California coast for at least 11,000 years. The name Pismo comes from the Chumash language word for tar, pismuʔ, which was gathered from tar springs in Price...
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    Fernando Librado (category Chumash people)
    a Chumash elder, master tomol builder, craft specialist, and storyteller. He was born at Mission San Buenaventura in 1839 as the son of two Chumash parents...
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    San Miguel Island (Chumash: Tuqan) is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands, located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean,...
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    Santa Cruz Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Cruz, Chumash: Limuw) is located off the southwestern coast of Ventura, California, United States. It is the largest...
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    Topanga, California (category Articles containing Tongva-language text)
    place above." The name in the Tongva language, Topaa'nga, has a root topaa'- that likely comes from the Chumash language. It was the western border of their...
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    Sespe Creek (category Articles containing uncoded-language text)
    name Sespe can be traced to a Chumash Indian village, called Cepsey, Sek-pe or S'eqpe' ("Kneecap") in the Chumash language in 1791. The village appeared...
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  • Mary Yee (category Chumash people)
    was a Barbareño Chumash linguist. She was the last first-language speaker of the Barbareño language, a member of the Chumashan languages that were once...
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    Mission Santa Barbara (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    was the Chumash-Barbareño tribe). This required religious conversion and integration into the Spanish colonial economy – for the local Chumash people,...
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  • that Tataviam was a Chumashan language, from a Ventureño language and others, of the Chumash-Ventureño and other Chumash groups, that had been influenced...
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  • explorers, and the find was given the place name of the island in the Chumash language. Archaeological research has shown that San Miguel Island was first...
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    Rosario Cooper (category Chumash people)
    titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini (Northern Chumash) woman who was the last known speaker of tiłhini (also known as Obispeño Chumash), though she had rarely spoken...
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    Simi Valley (/ˈsiːmiː/ ; Chumash: Shimiyi) is a city in the valley of the same name in the southeast region of Ventura County, California, United States...
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    official language. English and Spanish are the most widely used languages in the U.S. The United States does not have an official language at the federal...
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    John Peabody Harrington (category Indigenous languages of California)
    some languages, such as Obispeño (Northern) Chumash, Kitanemuk, and Serrano. He gathered more than 1 million pages of phonetic notations on languages spoken...
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    as tomolo'o (canoe) could be related to Polynesian languages. The dialect of the Chumash language that was spoken in Ventura County was Ventureño. Several...
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    Chumash Indian Museum is a Native American Interpretive Center in northeast Thousand Oaks, California. It is the site of a former Chumash village, known...
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    Ranchos of Los Angeles County (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    Retrieved March 31, 2023. Applegate, Richard B. (December 1, 1974). "Chumash Placenames". The Journal of California Anthropology. 1 (2). Archived from...
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  • [ppv] – name given to several uncontacted groups Europanto [eur] – a jest Chumash [chs] Chimakum [cmk] – duplicate of Chemakum [xch] Beti (Cameroon) [btb]...
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