๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ“œ Did you know the last fluent first-language speaker of #Mutsun passed away in 1930? Thanks to the dedicated work of Natasha Warner, Lynnika Butler, Heather Van Volkinburg, Quirina Geary, and @riosfrnd efforts to preserve this endangered #language are alive! Explore the Mutsun language database at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.6034253 and https://doi.org/10.1515/IJSL.2009.031 Image: Rios and Warner (2022), CC-BY 4.0. #OpenData #Preservation #UniversityofArizona
Mutsun Language Database

Mutsun is a Native American language spoken near San Juan Bautista, California. The last fluent first-language speaker passed away in 1930. The materials here represent analyzed texts in the language that were documented in field notes of early anthropologists, linguists, and a mission priest working with fluent native speakers. This collection consists of an export of the Mutsun language lexical database from the FieldWorks FLex software. Additionally, a virtual machine containing a ready-to-use copy of the software loaded with the database is provided for archival purposes.

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