Awaswas language

Awaswas
Awaswas
Santa Cruz
Native to	United States
Region	California
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Yok-Utian Utian Ohlone Northern Awaswas; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in Northern Ohlone [cst])
Glottolog	sant1428

Chapel of the Mission Santa Cruz, reconstruction.

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]

Area where the Utian languages were spoken

^ Milliken, Randall; Shoup, Laurence H.; Oritz, Beverly R. (2009). "Ohlone/Costanoan Indians of the San Francisco Peninsula and their Neighbors, Yesterday and Today". Government Documents and Publications: 17–36.

[:0-1] Milliken, Randall; Shoup, Laurence H.; Oritz, Beverly R. (2009). "Ohlone/Costanoan Indians of the San Francisco Peninsula and their Neighbors, Yesterday and Today". Government Documents and Publications: 17–36.

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