Awaswas | |
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Santa Cruz | |
Native to | United States |
Region | California |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (included in Northern Ohlone [cst]) |
Glottolog | sant1428 |
Awaswas, or Santa Cruz, is one of eight Ohlone languages. It was historically spoken by the Awaswas people, an indigenous people of California.
Linguists originally called the language Santa Cruz after the mission in the area but it was renamed to Awaswas as part of a move in the late 1960s and early 1970s by graduate students at the University of California Berkeley to use native names for the Ohlone languages.[1]
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