Kitanemuk language

Kitanemuk
Kitanemuk
Native to	United States
Region	Southern California
Ethnicity	Kitanemuk
Extinct	1940s
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Northern Uto-Aztecan Takic Serran Kitanemuk; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	kita1252
	Map of Takic languages. Kitanemuk is to the northwest of Serrano.
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Kitanemuk is an extinct Northern Uto-Aztecan language of the Serran branch. It is very closely related to Serrano, and may have been a dialect. Before its extinction, it was spoken in the San Gabriel Mountains and foothill environs of Southern California. The last speakers, Marcelino Rivera, Isabella Gonzales, and Refugia Duran, lived some time in the 1940s, though the last fieldwork was carried out in 1937. J. P. Harrington took copious notes in 1916 and 1917, however, which allowed for a fairly detailed knowledge of the language.