Awaswas language
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awaswas-language-175-1442386
title:
Awaswas language
text:
Awaswas, or Santa Cruz, is one of eight Ohlone languages. It was historically spoken by the Awaswas people, an indigenous people of California. The last speaker of Awaswas died in the 19th century, and the language has been extinct ever since. Linguists originally called the language Santa Cruz after the mission in the area, but it was renamed to Awaswas as part of a move in the late 1960s and early 1970s by graduate students at the University of California Berkeley to use native names for the O
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct Ohlone language
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaswas_language
date created:
2012-07-23T02:06:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:01:01Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Ohlone_color_map.svg","width":512,"height":681}
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13
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