Chochenyo language

Chochenyo
East Bay
Native to United States (California)
Ethnicity Chochenyo people
Extinct 1920s
Revival early 2000s
Yok-Utian

  • Utian

    • Costanoan
      • Northern
        • San Francisco Bay
          • Chochenyo
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 (included in cst)
Glottolog east2548[1]

Chochenyo (also called Chocheño and East Bay Costanoan) is the name of the spoken language of the Chochenyo people. Chochenyo is one of the Costanoan dialects in the Utian family. Linguistically, Chochenyo, Tamyen and Ramaytush are thought to have been dialects of a single language.

The speech of the last two native speakers of Chochenyo was documented in the 1920s in the unpublished fieldnotes of the Bureau of American Ethnology linguist John Peabody Harrington.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 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] [4] By 2009, many students were able to carry on conversations in the Chochenyo language.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "East Bay [Costanoan]". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ 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. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
  3. ↑ Kathleen Maclay (2004-06-04). "06.04.2004 - Conferences focus on saving native languages". UC Berkeley News. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  4. ↑ Chochenyo revitalization – language at UCB "Faith in Words" 2004
  5. ↑ "Ethnologue report for language code: cst". Retrieved 2012-07-24.

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