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California English (or Californian English) collectively refers to varieties of American English native to California.As California became one of the most ethnically diverse U.S. states, English speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds began to pick up different linguistic elements from one another and also developed new ones; the result is both divergence and convergence within Californian ...
The languages of the Americas often can be grouped together into linguistic areas or Sprachbunds (also known as convergence areas). The linguistic areas identified so far deserve more research to determine their validity. Knowing about Sprachbunds helps historical linguists differentiate between shared areal traits and true genetic relationship.
Major subsystems. Linguists recognize seven major language subsystems: Phonetics, the sounds of human speech, including their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and neurophysiological status; Phonology, the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language (natural language or constructed ...
Jicaquean (Tolan) ISO 639-5. hok. Glottolog. None. Hokan families of California, Arizona and Baja California. The Hokan / ˈhoʊkæn / language family is a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken mainly in California, Arizona, and Baja California.
Californiaprehistory.com: Map of Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families, and Dialects of the California region in 1770. Subcategories This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total.
S. Spanish language in California. Categories: California culture. California society. Languages of the United States by state.
The Ohlone languages, also known as Costanoan, form a small Indigenous language family historically spoken in Northern California, both in the southern San Francisco Bay Area and northern Monterey Bay area, by the Ohlone people. Along with the Miwok languages, they are members of the Utian language family.
Chumashan is an extinct and revitalizing family of languages that were spoken on the southern California coast by Native American Chumash people, from the Coastal plains and valleys of San Luis Obispo to Malibu, neighboring inland and Transverse Ranges valleys and canyons east to bordering the San Joaquin Valley, to three adjacent Channel Islands: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz.