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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

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.

Writing system

References

1. Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
2. "Purisimeño". Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
3. Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee. "Santa Barbara (Barbareno Chumash) and La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash) vocabularies September 18, 1884". Retrieved 2013-05-08.
4. "Papers of John P. Harrington, Part 3, Southern California Basin". California Language Archive. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
5. "Purisimeño Project".

External links

• Wieldoc.org: Purisimeño Project at the Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation
• Purisimeño language — overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.
• Language-archives.org: OLAC resources in and about the Purisimeño language

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