Mutsun language
Area where the Utian languages were spoken
Mutsun is one of the languages of the Ohlone people of California.
The people
Mutsun (also known as San Juan Bautista Costanoan) is an Utian language in the Ohlone/Costanoan language family that was spoken in Northern California by the division of the Ohlone who lived in the Mission San Juan Bautista area.
The language
Ascencion Solorsano, who died in 1930, left mass amounts of language and cultural data of the Mutsun. The Spaniard, Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, wrote a grammar of the language, and linguist John Peabody Harrington collected very extensive notes on the language from Solorsano. Harrington's field notes formed the basis of the grammar of Mutsun written by Marc Okrand as a University of California dissertation in 1977,[1] which to this day remains the only grammar ever written of any Costanoan language.
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
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Front |
Back |
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| Close |
i /i/ |
u /u/ |
| Close-mid |
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o /o/ |
| Open-mid |
e /ɛ/ |
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| Open |
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a /ɑ/ |
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Vocabulary
| English |
Mutsun |
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| one |
hemetca |
| two |
tRhin |
| three |
kaphan |
| four |
utRit |
| five |
parwes |
| six |
nakitci |
| seven |
takitci |
| eight |
tayitmin |
| nine |
pakki |
| ten |
tansakte |
Notable Mutsun Ohlone people
- 1913 – Barbara Solorsano died 1913, Mutsun linguistic consultant to C. Hart Merriam 1902-04, from San Juan Bautista (Teixeira 1997:33, 40).
- 1930 – Ascención Solorsano de Cervantes, died 1930, renowned Mutsun doctor, principal linguistic and cultural informant to J. P. Harrington (Ortiz 1994:133).
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Okrand, Marc. 1977. "Mutsun Grammar". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mutsun". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Okrand, (page 21)
- Arroyo de la Cuesta, Felipe (1862). A vocabulary or phrase book of the Mutsun language of Alta California. Cramoisy Press. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- Arroyo de la Cuesta, Felipe (1861). Extracto de la gramática Mutsun, ó de la lengua de los naturales de la mision de San Juan Bautista. Trübner. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- Okrand, Marc. 1977. "Mutsun Grammar". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
- Ortiz, Beverly R. 1994. Chocheño and Rumsen Narratives: A Comparison. In The Ohlone: Past and Present, pp. 99–164. ISBN 9780879191290
- Sitjar, Bonaventura (1861). Vocabulary of the language of San Antonio mission, California. Trübner. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- Teixeira, Lauren S. 1997. The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area—A Research Guide. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press. ISBN 9780879191405
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