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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.
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.
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.
The Serrano people of Southern California saw their Indigenous language almost vanish. Ernest Siva is bringing it back. Podcast: An Indigenous language, back from the brink
The Uto-Aztecan language family is one of the largest linguistic families in the Americas in terms of number of speakers, number of languages, and geographic extension. [2] The northernmost Uto-Aztecan language is Shoshoni, which is spoken as far north as Salmon, Idaho, while the southernmost is the Nawat language of El Salvador and Nicaragua.
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 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]
Serrano people, a Native American tribe of Southern California Serrano language , the language spoken by the Serrano people Serrano (surname) , people with the surname Serrano