Purisimeño language

Purisimeño was one of the Chumashan languages traditionally spoken along the coastal areas of Southern California near Lompoc. It was also spoken at the La Purisima Mission.^[2]

Purisimeño
Native to	California, United States
Region	Lompoc
Extinct	early 1900s
Language family	Chumashan Southern Central Purisimeño
Language codes
ISO 639-3	puy
Glottolog	puri1259
Purisimeño
Purisimeño is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. [1]

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

A vocabulary of "La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash)" was collected by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1884.^[3] John P. Harrington also documented the language, and wrote a sketch of the grammar.^[4]

Dr. Timothy Henry of the Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (WIELD) created a dictionary of the language.^[5]

Writing system

Purisimeño alphabet^{[citation needed]}

’

a

e

ǝ

h

i

k

l ~ ł

l̓

m

m̓

n

n̓

o

p

pʰ

p̓

q

qʰ

q̓

s

sʰ

s̓

š

šʰ

š̓

t

tʰ

t̓

ts

tsʰ

ts̓

tš

tšʰ

tš̓

u

w

w̓

x ~ x̂

x̓

y

y̓