Ineseño is a Chumashan language that was spoken in southern California, particularly in the Mission Santa Ynez in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County. The last native speaker died in 1965, and efforts have been made to revive the language since 2003 by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.
Ineseño is also known as Ynezeño, Samala or Sʰamala. It is closely related to Barbareño, and is considered a dialect of Barbareño by some. Ineseño is written with the Latin alphabet, and was first documented in the early 20th century by John P. Harrington, an American linguist an ethnologist, who worked with Maria Solares, one of the last fluent speakers of Ineseño.
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kič ha spe’y heč ha šup ma kiyaqlɨ’w ha sʰamala
Like a flower of this earth is our Samala language.
Source: https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ineseno-chumash/
Information about Ineseño | Phrases | Numbers
Information about Ineseño
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineseño_language
https://cla.berkeley.edu/languages/ineseno.html
https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ineseno-chumash/
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/news/bringing-back-the-samala-chumash-language.htm
https://pueblosindigenas.es/lenguas/ineseno-samala/
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 05.08.26. Last modified: 05.08.26
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