Tamien language
{{Short description|Extinct indigenous language of California}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Tamyen
| altname = Santa Clara
| states = United States
| region = California
| ethnicity = Tamien people
| extinct = ?
| familycolor = penutian
| fam1 = Yok-Utian
| fam2 = Utian
| fam3 = Ohlone
| fam4 = Northern
| fam5 = San Francisco Bay
| script = Latin
| iso3 = none
| iso3comment = (included in {{ISO 639|cst|link=yes}} cst
)
| glotto = sant1427
| glottorefname = Santa Clara (Miwok-Costanoan)
| ELP = 7409
| ELPname = San Francisco Bay Costanoan (shared)
| map = File:Ohlone_color_map.svg
| mapcaption = Map of Ohlone varieties with {{legend inline|#d4956c|Tamien}}
| map2 = File:Tamyen_map-01.svg
| mapcaption2 = Geographic distribution of Tamien people and language
}}
The Tamyen language (also spelled as Tamien, Thamien) is one of eight Ohlone languages, once spoken by Tamien people in Northern California.
Tamyen (also called Santa Clara Costanoan) has been extended to mean the Santa Clara Valley Indians, as well as for the language they spoke. Tamyen is listed as one of the Costanoan language dialects in the Utian family. It was the primary language that Natives spoke at the first and second Mission Santa Clara (both founded in 1777). Linguistically, it is thought that Chochenyo, Tamyen and Ramaytush were close dialects of a single language.
See also
Further reading
- Levy, Richard. 1978. Costanoan, in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8 (California). William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. {{ISBN|0-16-004578-9}} / 0160045754, pages 485-495.
- Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1910 Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1995. {{ISBN|0-87919-132-5}} (alk. paper)
- Teixeira, Lauren. The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area, A Research Guide. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1997. {{ISBN|0-87919-141-4}}.
External links
- [http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/languages/tamyen.php Tamyen], Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- [http://www.language-archives.org/item/oai:cla.berkeley.edu:Henshaw.m001.002 Comparative vocabulary, Tamyen]
- [http://cla.berkeley.edu/language/588?tab=collections&drestriction=all Tamyen, California Language Archive]
- [http://www.language-archives.org/item/oai:cla.berkeley.edu:Harrington.690510-068 Tamyen, Papers of John P. Harrington, Part 2, Northern and Central California]
- [http://www.tamien.org Tamien Nation, language, and culture]
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{{Languages of California}}
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Category:Extinct languages of North America
Category:History of the San Francisco Bay Area