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Welcome to the Barbareņo Chumash Language Tutorial!   
Richard Applegate, Ph.D.

    These pages are designed to be user-friendly for people without formal training in linguistics. The lessons start from scratch and guide you through the topics necessary to pronounce Barbareņo and start putting together simple phrases, and it builds from there. These pages make Barbareņo accessible to anyone who's willing to learn it.

You'll learn some technical terms to study a language with a structure and sound system so different from English, but technical jargon is at minimum here. If you see a term like "person marker" or "glottalization," you'll also find an explanation when it first appears and the glossary is only a click or two away.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Please note: This site — in its current state — is only a prototype that hints at the flavor of the finished product. I am uploading new pages and revisions regularly. The pages will eventually have sound clips that the viewer can click on to hear.