Utian languages

{{Short description|Language family of Northern California, US}}

{{distinguish|Ute language}}

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{{Infobox language family

| name = Utian

| altname = Miwok–Costanoan, Miwok–Ohlone, Mutsun

| region = California

| familycolor = penutian

| fam1 = Yok-Utian ?

| child1 = Miwok

| child2 = Ohlone {{extinct}}

| glotto = miwo1274

| glottorefname = Miwok–Costanoan

| map = Utian map.svg

| mapcaption = Pre-contact distribution of Utian languages

| mapalt = Pre-contact distribution of Utian languages

| ancestor =

| glottoname =

| notes =

}}

Utian (also Miwok–Costanoan, Miwok–Ohlone or formerly Mutsun) is a family of Indigenous languages spoken in Northern California, United States. The Miwok and Ohlone peoples both spoke languages of the Utian language family. It has been argued that the Utian languages and Yokuts languages are sub-families of the Yok-Utian language family.{{sfn|Callaghan|1997}}{{sfn|Callaghan|2001}}{{sfn|Golla|2007|p=76-77}} Utian and Yokutsan have traditionally been considered part of the Penutian language phylum.{{sfn|Goddard|1996|p=313-319}}{{sfn|Mithun|1999}}{{sfn|Shipley|1978|p=82-85}}

All Utian languages are severely endangered, extinct or revitalizing.

See also

References

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  • {{cite journal

|first=Catherine |last=Callaghan |author-link=Catherine Callaghan

|date=1997

|title=Evidence for Yok-Utian

|journal=International Journal of American Linguistics

|volume=63 |number=1 |pages=18-64

|jstor=1265864

}}

  • {{cite journal

|first=Catherine |last=Callaghan |author-link=Catherine Callaghan

|date=2001

|title=More Evidence for Yok-Utian: A Reanalysis of the Dixon and Kroeber Sets

|journal=International Journal of American Linguistics

|volume=67 |issue=3 |pages=313-345

|jstor=1265989

}}

  • {{cite book

|first=Catherine |last=Callaghan |author-link=Catherine Callaghan

|date=2014

|title=Proto-Utian Grammar and Dictionary: with notes on Yokuts

|series=Trends in Linguistics Documentation

|volume=31

|location=Berlin, Boston

|publisher=De Gruyter Mouton

|doi=10.1515/9783110276770

}}

  • {{cite journal

|first=Ives |last=Goddard

|date=1996

|title=The Classification of the Native Languages of North America

|pages=290–324

|journal=Languages

|editor-first=Ives |editor-last=Goddard

|series=Handbook of North American Indians

|volume=17

|location=Washington, DC

|publisher=Smithsonian Institution

|isbn=0-16-048774-9

}}

  • {{cite journal

|first = Victor |last = Golla |author-link=Victor Golla

|date=2007

|title=Linguistic Prehistory

|pages=71–82

|journal=California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity

|editor1-first=Terry L. |editor1-last=Jones

|editor2-first=Kathryn A. |editor2-last=Klar

|publisher=Altamira Press |location=New York

|isbn=978-0-7591-0872-1

}}

  • {{cite book

|first=Marianne |last=Mithun |author-link=Marianne Mithun

|year=1999

|title=The Languages of Native North America

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|location=Cambridge

|isbn=0-521-23228-7

}}

  • {{cite journal

|first=William F. |last=Shipley |author-link=William F. Shipley

|date=1978

|title=Native Languages of California

|journal=Handbook of North American Indians

|volume=8

}}

: (California). William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. {{ISBN|0-16-004578-9}} / 0160045754, pages 80–90.

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