Obispeño language

Obispeño
tiłhini
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornian coastal areas
Ethnicityyak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash
Extinct1917, with the death of Rosario Cooper
Revival21st century
Chumashan
  • Obispeño
Dialects
  • Northern
  • Southern
Language codes
ISO 639-3obi
Glottologobis1242
  Obispeño
Obispeño is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Obispeño (also known as tiłhini) is one of the extinct Chumash Native American languages previously spoken along the coastal areas of California. The primary source of documentation on the language is from the work of linguist J. P. Harrington.