Luiseñon.
/luːiˈseɪnjəʊ/ The name, originally San Luiseño, given to a Shoshone Indian people; a member of this people or the language spoken by them. Also attributive or as adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Central and South California > [noun]
Mojave1831
Mono1851
Miwok1856
Mutsun1857
Luiseño1858
Monache1870
Yokuts1877
Yawelmani1907
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Uto-Aztecan > of miscellaneous languages of
Comanche1819
Ute1826
Paiute1845
Luiseño1858
1858 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 5 Nov. The true native Americans of the wild forests—such as the Yumas,..San Luiseños,..predominate.
1874 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States I. iv. 460 The villages of the San Luiseños are in a section of country adjacent to the Cahuillas.
1884 H. H. Jackson Ramona 244 In the Luiseno tongue that is Majel.
1965 R. F. Spencer et al. Native Americans vi. 263/1 The Luiseño myth of their origins revealed a surprising loftiness of concept.
1965 R. F. Spencer et al. Native Americans vi. 264/2 These events have combined to substantially eliminate the Luiseño as an ethnic and cultural group.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 139 The Luiseno sub-branch of languages in South-western California.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.1858