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Mutsun
Spoken in:	United States (California)
Total speakers:	extinct
Language family:	Penutian  Yok-Utian   Utian    Costanoan     Mutsun
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	-
ISO 639-2:	-
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	-
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

The Mutsun (or San Juan Bautista) language is an extinct Costanoan language of the U.S. state of California. Ascencion Solorsano, who died in 1930, was the last speaker of Mutsun. Mutsun went extinct from a gradual process of the Mutsun being forced to switch to speaking Spanish. The Spanish wrote a grammar of the language, and linguist John Peabody Harrington collected very extensive notes on the language from Solorsano. Harrington's fieldnotes formed the basis of the grammar of Mutsun written by Marc Okrand as a University of California dissertation in 1977, to date the only modern description of a Costanoan language. Many Mutsun people who live in California are trying to restore their language.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Consonants 1.2 Vowels 2 Orthography 3 Vocabulary 4 References 5 External links 6 See Also

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Consonants

	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal	Bilabial
Nasal	n
Stop	t		t̠		k
Fricative		s	s̠			h
Approximant				j			w
Lateral approximant		l
Affricate			ʧ
Trill	r

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid		o
Open-mid	ɛ
Open		ɑ

[edit] Orthography

• a [ɑ]
• e [ɛ]
• h [h]
• i [i]
• k [k]
• l [l]
• m [m]
• n [n]
• o [o]
• r [r]
• s [s]
• sY [s̠]
• t [t]
• tR [t̠]
• tc [ʧ]
• u [u]
• w [w]
• y [j]

[edit] Vocabulary

• one hemetca

• two tRhin

• three kaphan

• four utRit

• five parwes

• six nakitci

• seven takitci

• eight tayitmin

• nine pakki

• ten tansakte

[edit] References