Native to California Extinct (date missing) Glottolog puri1259 | Region Lompoc ISO 639-3 puy | |
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Language family Chumashan
Southern
Central
Purisimeño | ||
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.
A vocabulary of "La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash)" was collected by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1884. John P. Harrington also documented the language, and wrote a sketch of the grammar.
Dr. Timothy Henry of the Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (WIELD) created a dictionary of the language.
References
Purisimeño language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA