Ramaytush dialect
| Ramaytush | |
|---|---|
| San Francisco | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | California |
| Ethnicity | Ramaytush people |
| Extinct | 1915 |
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| Glottolog | sanf1261 |
| ELP | San Francisco Bay Costanoan (shared) |
The Ramaytush language is one of the eight
San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. Ramaytush is a dialect or language within the Ohlone branch of the Utian family. The term Ramaytush was first applied to it during the 1970s.[1]
The Ramaytush language territory was largely bordered by ocean, except in the south, which was bordered by the people of the Santa Clara Valley who spoke the
Point Año Nuevo who spoke dialects merging toward the Awaswas language. To the east, across San Francisco Bay, were tribes that spoke the Chochenyo language. To the north, across the Golden Gate, was the Huimen local tribe of Coast Miwok language speakers. The northernmost Ramaytush local tribe, the Yelamu of San Francisco, were intermarried with the Huchiun Chochenyos of the Oakland area at the time of Spanish colonization.[2]
European disease took a heavy toll of life on all tribal people who came to
Alfred L. Kroeber claimed that the west bay people were extinct by 1915.[citation needed
]
See also
Notes
References
- Heizer, Robert F. 1974. The Costanoan Indians. De Anza College History Center: Cupertino, California.
- Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769–1910 Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1995. ISBN 0-87919-132-5.
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