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Name:
Barbareño
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Santa Rosa; Chumasha Proper; Santa Barbara; Emigdiano; Chumash (Barbareño)
Once Spoken in:
USA
Code:
boi
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Chumashan
Parent Subgroup:
Central Chumash (cchu)
Child Dialects:
Dos Pueblos (boi-dos)
Santa Barbara-Goleta; Santa Barbara (boi-sba)
Brief Description:
"Barbareño is the Chumash language once spoken at Santa Barbara mission and along the southern coast of Santa Barbara County from Point Conception to Carpinteria. The last Chumash speaker, a fluent Barbareño, died in 1965." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 11
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Barbareño
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