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". Barbareño lost its last known native speaker in 1965 with the death of Mary Yee. Both Barbareño and its sister language Ineseño are currently undergoing processes of language revitalization.
Language revitalization , the Barbareño Chumash Council is engaged in ongoing efforts to revive the language. Two of its members are language apprentices and teachers. Wishtoyo Chumash Village, in Malibu, California, announced the opening of its Šmuwič Language School in 2010.
Phonology
Consonants +Barbareño consonant phonemesBilabial Alveolar Postalveolar/Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal plain sibilant Plosive/Affricate plain ejective aspirated Fricative plain ejective aspirated Nasal plain glottalized Approximant plain glottalized
Vowels +Barbareño vowel phonemes Front Central Back Close Open
References
Further reading
Applegate, Richard. (1972). Ineseño Chumash Grammar. (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley). Beeler, M. S. 1976. Barbareno Chumash: a farrago. In Langdon, Margaret and Silver, Shirley, eds. Hokan Studies: Papers from the 1st Conference on Hokan Languages held in San Diego, California April 23–25, 1970, pp. 251–270. The Hague: Mouton. Wash, Suzanne. (1995). Productive Reduplication in Barbareño Chumash. (Master's thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara; 210 + x pp.) Wash, Suzanne. (2001). Adverbial Clauses in Barbareño Chumash Narrative Discourse. (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara; 569 + xxii pp.)
External links Barbareño language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
, Smithsonian Archives Barbareño Chumash Names for the Body Samala Chumash Language Tutorial OLAC resources in and about the Barbareño language OLAC resources in and about the Ineseño language Ineseño basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database