Obispeño language

Obispeño (also known as tiłhini^[3]) is one of the extinct Chumash Native American languages previously spoken along the coastal areas of California. The primary source of documentation on the language is from the work of linguist J. P. Harrington.^[4]

Obispeño
tiłhini
Native to	United States
Region	Californian coastal areas
Ethnicity	yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash
Extinct	1917, with the death of Rosario Cooper
Revival	21st century[1]
Language family	Chumashan Obispeño
Dialects	Northern Southern
Language codes
ISO 639-3	obi
Glottolog	obis1242
Obispeño
Obispeño is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2]

Classification

Obispeño is classified as the sole member of the northern branch of the Chumashan language family. It has two dialects, a northern and southern dialect.^[5]

Geographic distribution

Obispeño was spoken in the region of San Luis Obispo, California.

Orthography

The yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe uses an alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (and the Americanist phonetic notation) to transcribe Obispeño.^[6]