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    The Tongva language (also known as Gabrielino or Gabrieleño) is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language formerly spoken by the Tongva, a Native American people...
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    The Tongva (/ˈtɒŋvə/ TONG-və) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately...
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  • The Tongva are a Native American people of California, USA. Tongva may also refer to: Tongva language Tongva Park, in Santa Monica, California This disambiguation...
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    Pamela; Gabrielino/Tongva Language Committee (2008). Yaara' Shiraaw'ax 'Eyooshiraaw'a. Now You're Speaking Our Language: Gabrielino/Tongva/Fernandeño. Lulu...
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    Adenostoma fasciculatum (category Articles containing Tongva-language text)
    chamizo, chamizo negro, chamizo prieto, yerba del pasma Tiipai: iy pshii Tongva language: huutah There are varieties which differ from each other in minor characters;...
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    Topanga, California (category Articles containing Tongva-language text)
    American indigenous Tongva tribe, and may mean "where the mountain meets the sea" or "a place above." The name in the Tongva language, Topaa'nga, has a...
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    Cahuilla language Cupeño language Luiseño language Serrano language Tongva language Kitanemuk language Tataviam language ? Nicoleño language ? As classified...
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    Cahuenga, California (category Tongva)
    means mountain in Tongva language. Recent linguistic work suggests an alternative meaning of "place of the fox". The Tongva-language suffix -nga indicates...
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    California. The name Encino is the Spanish language word for "oak." The Spanish name reflects the original Tongva language name for the village of Siutcanga,...
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    in the Fernandeño language, a dialect of the extinct Tongva language, where tuxu, "old woman", is a term for Mother Earth in Tongva mythology. The term...
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  • La Brea (TV series) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Sensmeier as Taamet (season 2), the leader of the Exiles who speaks the Tongva language due to being Paara's ex-husband. After Scott attacks him and he is...
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    Los Angeles River (category Articles containing Tongva-language text)
    Los Ángeles), historically known as Paayme Paxaayt (West River) by the Tongva and the Río Porciúncula (Porciúncula River) by the Spanish, is a major river...
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    "thorn" or "prickle" in English) in the Fernandeño dialect of the Tongva language. Hence, Wixánga meant something like "place/canyon of the thorns" in...
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    Ranchos of Los Angeles County (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    to three Spanish military veterans. All three were grants of traditional Tongva lands. The greater portion of the rancho grants were created under Mexican...
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    Tonantzin Carmelo (category American people who self-identify as being of Tongva descent)
    2018. "Getting to know Los Angeles Tongva Actress — Tonantzin Carmelo". September 9, 2018. "Tongva, L.A.'s first language, opens the door to a forgotten time...
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  • History of Los Angeles (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    fleeing drought in the Great Basin—who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language called Tongva. The Tongva people called the Los Angeles region Yaa in that tongue. By...
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  • Hahamog'na (category Tongva)
    and spelled Xaxaamonga in their native language, are a tribe of the Tongva people of California. Their language belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. The...
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    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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  • extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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    of present-day Canoga Park was the homeland of Native Americans in the Tongva-Fernandeño and Chumash-Venturaño tribes, that lived in the Simi Hills and...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    Homhoangna (category Tongva populated places)
    also known as Homhoa Canyon, Homoa Canyon, and Homuba Canyon. The Tongva language word for "hilly place" was reportedly homhoabit. The village was located...
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    branch of the Tongva Nation. They spoke the Tongva language, part of the Uto-Aztecan language group. (Pasadena means "valley" in the language of the Ojibwe...
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    Serrano people of Southern California. The language is closely related to Tongva, Tataviam, Kitanemuk and Vanyume. Serrano has free word order with the only...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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    Reche Canyon, historically known as Homhoa Canyon, derived from the Tongva language word homhoabit or "hilly place." During the Mission Era the Mission...
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  • Otsungna (category Tongva populated places)
    village has alternatively been referred to as Ochuunga, derived from the Tongva language word for "wild rose" and possibly translating to "Place of Roses."...
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    Slover Mountain (category Articles containing Tongva-language text)
    0649°N 117.3423°W / 34.0649; -117.3423 Naming Native name Tahualtapa (Tongva) Geography Slover Mountain San Bernardino County, California, United States...
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    historical village of the local Tongva—Fernandeño Native American tribe, using a westernized version of its Tongva language name. It was originally to be...
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    which means "place of shooting" in the Fernandeño dialect of the Tongva language. The name comes from the verb muxú, which means "shoot him." In 1931...
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