Purisimeño language

{{Short description|Extinct Chumashan language of California, US}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Purisimeño

| states = California, United States

| region = Lompoc

| extinct = early 1900s

| familycolor = American

| fam1 = Chumashan

| fam2 = Southern

| fam3 = Central

| iso3 = puy

| glotto = puri1259

| glottorefname = Purisimeno

| map = File:Chumashan_Language_Map.svg

| mapcaption = {{legend|ff8000|Purisimeño}}

| map2 = Lang Status 01-EX.svg

| mapcaption2 = {{center|Purisimeño is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.}}{{cite report |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |publisher=UNESCO |edition=3rd |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026 |date=2010 |page=11}}

}}

File:La Purisima Mission.jpg, Lompoc, California]]

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.{{Cite web

| title = Purisimeño

| work = Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

| access-date = 2012-07-22

| url = http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/languages/purisimeno.php

}}

A vocabulary of "La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash)" was collected by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1884.{{Cite web

| last = Henshaw

| first = Henry Wetherbee

| title = Santa Barbara (Barbareno Chumash) and La Purrissima or Kagimuswas (Purismeno Chumash) vocabularies September 18, 1884

| access-date = 2013-05-08

| url = http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!16001!0

}} John P. Harrington also documented the language, and wrote a sketch of the grammar.{{Cite web

| title = Papers of John P. Harrington, Part 3, Southern California Basin

| work = California Language Archive

| access-date = 2013-05-08

| url = http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1234

}}

Dr. Timothy Henry of the Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (WIELD) created a dictionary of the language.{{Cite web|url=http://wieldoc.org/?page_id=316|title = Purisimeño Project}}