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Serrano (Serrano: Maarrênga'twich) is a language in the Serran branch of the Uto-Aztecan family spoken by the Serrano people of Southern California. The language is closely related to Tongva, Tataviam, Kitanemuk and Vanyume, which may be a dialect of Serrano. Serrano has free word order with the only rule being that verbs usually come last. [3]
Serrano language is part of the Takic subset of the large Uto-Aztecan languages group of Indigenous people of North America.The language family historically extended from Mexico along the West Coast and into the Great Basin, with representation among tribes in Mesoamerica.
Serrano traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Serrano people of the San Bernardino Mountains and southern Mojave Desert of southern California, originally in the Serrano language. Serrano oral literature is closely linked with the traditions of the Serrano's closest linguistic relatives, the ...
The Takic languages. The grey languages are Serran. The Serran or Serrano-Gabrielino languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that comprises the extinct Serrano language , Kitanemuk language (Serran proper), and Tongva , all indigenous to southern California.
The Uto-Aztecan [a] languages [b] are a family of native American languages, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The name of the language family reflects the common ancestry of the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan) of ...
The last pure speaker of Serrano was an enrolled member at Morongo, Ms. Dorothy Ramon, who died in 2002. Recent generations have found a renewed interest in their native languages, however. Many families are working to have their children educated to speak Pass Cahuilla and/or Serrano. [9]
The Vanyume traditionally spoke the Vanyume language, a now-extinct and poorly attested Uto-Aztecan language belonging to the Takic branch.The Vanyume language was likely very closely related to the Serrano language, though it may have shared features with the neighboring Kitanemuk language, [5] and was spoken to the north of Serrano territory. [6]
The Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation is a federally recognized tribe [1] of Serrano people in San Bernardino County, California. [2] [3] They are made up of the Yuhaviatam clan of Serrano people, who have historically lived in the San Bernardino Mountains. [4] The tribe was formerly named the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. [5]