Cruzeño language

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Cruzeño
Isleño
Island Chumash
Native to California
Region Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island
Extinct (date missing)
Chumashan
  • Southern
    • Cruzeño
Language codes
ISO 639-3 crz
Glottolog cruz1243[1]

Cruzeño, also known as Isleño (Ysleño) or Island Chumash, was one of the Chumashan languages spoken along the coastal areas of Southern California. It shows evidence of mixing between a core Chumashan language such as Barbareño or Ventureño and an indigenous language of the Channel Islands. The latter was presumably spoken on the islands since the end of the last ice age separated them from the mainland; Chumash would have been introduced in the first millennium after the introduction of plank canoes on the mainland. Evidence of the substratum language is retained in a noticeably non-Chumash phonology, and basic non-Chumash words such as those for 'water' and 'house'.[2]

References

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  2. Golla, Victor. (2011). California Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-5202-6667-4

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