Ventureño language
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Ventureño is a member of the extinct Chumashan languages, a group of Native American languages previously spoken by the Chumash people along the coastal areas of Southern California from as far north as San Luis Obispo to as far south as Malibu. Ventureño was spoken from as far north as present-day Ventura to as far south as present-day Malibu and the Simi Hills, California. Dialects probably also included Castac and Alliklik.[1]Template:Rp
Ventureño is, like its sister Chumashan languages, a polysynthetic language, having larger words composed of a number of morphemes. Ventureño has separate word classes of verb, noun, and oblique adjunct; with no separate word class for adjectives or adpositions.[2] Nouns and verbs are often heavily affixed (mostly prefixed) in Ventureño, affixing being a way to denote those meanings often conveyed by separate words in more analytic languages. Verbs play a primary role in Ventureño with utterances often composed only of a verb with clitics. Chumash word order is VSO/VOS, or VS/VO.[3]
Phonology
Ventureño has a similar phonemic inventory to other Chumash languages. Ventureño consists of 30 consonants and 6 vowels.[4]
Vowels
Ventureño consists of a regular 5-vowel inventory with a sixth vowel transcribed as Template:Angbr IPA.[4] In Barbareño transcriptions, Template:Angbr IPA is used. It is not known whether these two phones are the same in both languages (and the difference in transcription merely one of convention), or whether the sounds were in fact different enough for Harrington to use different symbols.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link |
| Mid | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | |
| Open | Template:IPA link |
Consonants
- Ventureño has only one lateral, Script error: No such module "IPA".. However, Script error: No such module "IPA". has a distinct allophone Script error: No such module "IPA". that Harrington includes in his transcriptions.
Orthography
Ventureño has been written in several different ways by different linguists.[4] John Peabody Harrington, who compiled most of the data on Ventureño, used a modified version of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Harrington differed from the International Phonetic Alphabet in the following symbols: a kappa Template:Angbr (small-cap 'k') for Script error: No such module "IPA"., a Template:Angbr for Script error: No such module "IPA"., a slanted bar Template:Angbr for Script error: No such module "IPA"., a reversed apostrophe Template:Angbr for aspiration, and a right-turned (standard) apostrophe Template:Angbr for a glottal stop (this symbol was also used for ejectives and glottalized sonorants).[5]
The Barbareño/Ventureño Band of Mission Indians has adopted an Americanist form of transcription for Ventureño based on the work done by Harrington: Template:Angbr for Script error: No such module "IPA"., Template:Angbr for Script error: No such module "IPA"., Template:Angbr for Script error: No such module "IPA"., Template:Angbr for aspiration, Template:Angbr for Script error: No such module "IPA"., and Template:Angbr for Script error: No such module "IPA".. A standard apostrophe Template:Angbr continues to be used for a glottal stop Script error: No such module "IPA". and for denoting ejectives. Glottalized sonorants Script error: No such module "IPA". are written with a combining apostrophe over the symbol Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr. This transcription is in keeping with most current Chumashists (such as Wash below) except that alveolar affricates (Script error: No such module "IPA".) are written as Template:Angbr in Ventureño, where other Chumashists write them as Template:Angbr. Likewise, Ventureño writes postalveolar affricates (Script error: No such module "IPA".) as Template:Angbr, where other Chumashists write this sound as Template:Angbr.
Morphology
Chumash morphology is fairly polysynthetic. This applies especially to the verbs of the language, which has over 15 distinct morphological slots (when counting nominalized verbs). This is illustrated in the table below by the nominalized verb meaning "your wanting to make fun of us".
Numbers
The Chumash languages exhibit a quaternary numeral system.[5][6][7] The numbers 1–16 exhibit certain characteristics which are different from the method of counting from 17 to 32. In all places, however, the multiple of 4 usually has a unique term. Ventureño Chumash has the most complete, native Chumash system of numbers on record.
- 1 pakeʼet
- 2 ʼiškom̓
- 3 masǝx
- 4 tskumu
- 5 yǝtipake’es
- 6 yǝti’iškom̓
- 7 yǝtimasǝx
- 8 malawa
- 9 tspa
- 10 ka’aškom
- 11 tǝlu
- 12 masǝx tskumu
- 13 masǝx tskumu kampake’et
- 14 ’iškom̓ laliet
- 15 pake’et siwe (tšikipš)
- 16 tšikipš
- 17 tšikipš kampake’et
- 18 ’iškom̓ siwe tskumu’uy
- 19 pake’et siwe tskumu’uy
- 20 tskumu’uy
- 21 tskumu’uy kampake’et
- 22 ’iškom̓ siwe itsmaxmasǝx
- 23 pake’et siwe itsmaxmasǝx
- 24 itsmaxmasǝx
- 25 itsmaxmasǝx kampake’et
- 26 ’iškom̓ siwe yitimasǝx
- 27 pake’et siwe yitimasǝx
- 28 yitimasǝx
- 29 yitimasǝx kampake’et
- 30 ’iškom̓ siwe ’iškom̓ tšikipš
- 31 pake’et siwe ’iškom̓ tšikipš
- 32 ’iškom̓ tšikipš
References
External links
- Ventureño language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
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- OLAC resources in and about the Ventureño language
- Ventureño at the California Language Archive Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Microfilm reels 69, 89, and 94 on Ventureño.
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