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Awaswas, or Santa Cruz, is one of eight Ohlone languages. It was historically spoken by the Awaswas people, an indigenous people of California.

Awaswas
Santa Cruz
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
Extinct(date missing)
Language family
Yok-Utian
  • Utian
    • Ohlone
      • Northern
        • Awaswas
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in cst)
Glottologsant1428
Chapel of the Mission Santa Cruz, reconstruction.
Chapel of the Mission Santa Cruz, reconstruction.

Linguists originally called the language Santa Cruz after the mission in the area but it was renamed to Awaswas as part of a move in the late 1960s and early 1970s by graduate students at the University of California Berkeley to use native names for the Ohlone languages.[1]

Area where the Utian languages were spoken
Area where the Utian languages were spoken

History


The Awaswas lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains and along the coast of present-day Santa Cruz County from present-day Davenport to Aptos. Awaswas became the main language spoken at the Mission Santa Cruz.[2] However, there is evidence that this grouping was more geographic than linguistic, and that the records of the "Santa Cruz Costanoan" language in fact represent several diverse dialects. A report from 1952 identified four different distinct forms of Costanoan[3] and a more recent report from 2009 states, "No area in North America was more crowded with distinct languages and language families than central California at the time of Spanish contact."[1]

The Ohlone language group is broken into branches with the most related languages grouped together. Awaswas has been grouped in both the northern and southern branches with different research disagreeing on the best fitting classification. Some branches within the Ohlone language group have been described as being as similar to each other as different local dialects of Italian, while others, such as Rumsen, Mutsun, and Awaswas "were as closely related as French, Spanish, and Portuguese."[1]

In 2012, Amah Mutsun [Wikidata] Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez stated that "his great-great-grandmother was the last of the Awaswas speakers."[4]


See also



Notes


  1. Milliken, Randall; Shoup, Laurence H.; Oritz, Beverly R. (2009). "Ohlone/Costanoan Indians of the San Francisco Peninsula and their Neighbors, Yesterday and Today". Government Documents and Publications: 17–36.
  2. "Awaswas". Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
  3. Heizer, R. F., ed. (1952). "California Indian Linguistic Records: The Mission Indian Vocabularies of Alphonse Pinart" (PDF). Anthropological Records. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 15 (1).
  4. Donna Jones (2012-12-21). "Healing ceremonies recall California Mission heritage". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Retrieved 2012-12-23.

References





На других языках


- [en] Awaswas language

[fr] Awaswas

L’awaswas (ou coastanoan de Santa Cruz) est une langue costanoane de la branche des langues costanoanes du Nord parlée aux États-Unis, en Californie, dans les régions côtières de la baie de Monterey, entre Davenport et Aptos[2].

[ru] Авасвас (язык)

Авасвас (Awaswas, Santa Cruz) — мёртвый язык костаноанской ветви утийской семьи, на котором раньше говорило одноимённое племя, проживавшее в деревнях Агтисрн, Апил, Аулинтак, Ачилла, Аэстака, Валланми, Йеунаба, Йеуната, Йеунатор, Кут, Лукобо, Лучасми, Маллин, Нохиоалли, Онби, Осакалис (Сукел), Очойос, Паянмин, Сагин, Сачуэн, Сио-Котчмин, Теджи, Томой, Турами, Уталлиам, Хаузаурни, Хоттрочтак, Хуалкилме, Хуачи, Хуоком, Чалумю, Чанеч, Чикутаэ, Чороми, Шиугуэрми и Шореми в горной местности около города Санта-Круз штата Калифорния в США[1].



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