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Name:
Serrano-Kitanemuk
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Serrano; Serran; Kitanemuk
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
1 (1994 C. Coker)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ser
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Uto-Aztecan (Yuta-Nawan)
Parent Subgroup:
Gabrelino proper; Serranish Group; Serrano-Kitanemuk; Serran (flcf)
Child Dialects:
Serrano (ser-ser)
Serrano; Vanyume (ser-van)
Brief Description:
"Serrano, a language of the Serrano-Gabrielino division of the Takic subfamily of Uto-Aztecan, was originally spoken in much of the Mojave Desert and the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California. Serrano descendants live mainly at the San Manuel Reservation near San Bernardino, also a number of Serranos have intermarried with the Cahuillas at the Morongo and Soboba Reservations. Only a very few older people are speakers, none completely fluent." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 22
UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Serrano-Kitanemuk
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