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Chumash

Chumash

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A language spoken by a Native group from southern California
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃuːmɑːʃ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : lengua chumash
  • The Chumash language family includes several dialects that were spoken along the southern California coast.

Examples

  • Many scholars are documenting the Chumash dialects to preserve this unique aspect of California's heritage.

  • The linguist studied the Chumash languages to understand the history of the indigenous people.

  • I'll get you a chumash; they'll have them there...

    Fiction book (2001)

Surface Forms

Chumash singular
Chumashes plural

Etymology

Chumash is also the name for the languages spoken by that people, because the language is named after the people and their homeland; English took this name from Spanish and local native words. So Chumash can mean any of the languages or dialects of the Chumash people.