Barbareño language

Barbareño
Barbareño
Native to	California, United States
Region	Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez
Extinct	1965, with the death of Mary Yee
Revival	2010
Language family	Chumashan Southern Central Barbareño; ; ;
Dialects	Emigdiano;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	boi
Glottolog	barb1263
ELP	Barbareño
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Barbareño is a Chumashan language indigenous to the area in and around Santa Barbara, California. A dialect of the Barbareño language was also "spoken at San Emigdio near Buena Vista Lake" in the southern Central Valley. This dialect, called Emigdiano, "was heavily influenced by Buena Vista Yokuts".^[2] Barbareño lost its last known native speaker in 1965 with the death of Mary Yee.^[1] Both Barbareño and its sister language Ineseño are currently undergoing processes of language revitalization.^[3]^[4]

Extinct1965, with the death of Mary Yee^[1]

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		Bilabial	Alveolar		Postalveolar/ Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
		Bilabial	plain	sibilant	Postalveolar/ Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	p	t	t͡s	t͡ʃ	k	q	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	t͡sʼ	t͡ʃʼ	kʼ	qʼ
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	t͡sʰ	t͡ʃʰ	kʰ	qʰ
Fricative	plain			s	ʃ	x		h
	ejective			sʼ	ʃʼ	xʼ
	aspirated			sʰ	ʃʰ
Nasal	plain	m	n
Nasal	glottalized	ˀm	ˀn
Approximant	plain		l		j	w
Approximant	glottalized		ˀl		ˀj	ˀw

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