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Mutsun Language

Studies of the Mutsun Language

Studies of the Mutsun Language

Maria Ascención Solórsano De Garcia y De Cervantes, the last known fluent speaker of Mutsun, amassed large amounts of language and cultural data specific to the Mutsun.



The Spanish Franciscan missionary and linguist Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta wrote extensively about the language’s grammar, and linguist John Peabody Harrington made very extensive notes on the language from Solórsano. Harrington’s field notes formed the basis of the grammar of Mutsun written by Marc Okrand as a University of California dissertation in 1977, which to this day remains the only grammar ever written of any Costanoan language.


Other References:

Mutsun Grammar

Author(s): Okrand, Marc; 1977 A.B. University of California, Santa Cruz

Vocabulary of the Language of San-Antonio Mission, California

Del Orden Seafico de N.P. San Francisco 1801 By Bonaventure Sitjar

Mutsun Language
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