The Tamyen language (also spelled as ''Tamien'', ''Thamien'') is one of eight Ohlone languages, once spoken by Tamyen people in Northern California.
''Tamyen'' (also called ''Santa Clara Costanoan'') has been extended to mean the Santa Clara Valley Indians, as well as for the language they spoke. Tamyen is listed as one of the Costanoan language dialects in the Utian languages, Utian family. It was the primary language that Natives spoke at the first and second Mission Santa Clara de Asís, Mission Santa Clara (both founded in 1777). Linguistically, it is thought that Chochenyo language, Chochenyo, Tamyen and Ramaytush were close dialects of a single language.
See also
* List of Ohlone villages#Santa Clara Valley, Ohlone tribes and villages in Santa Clara Valley
* Tamien Station
Notes
Further reading
* Levy, Richard. 1978. ''Costanoan'', in ''Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8 (California)''. William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. / 0160045754, pages 485-495.
* Milliken, Randall. ''A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1910'' Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1995. (alk. paper)
* Teixeira, Lauren. ''The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area, A Research Guide''. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1997. .
External links
Tamyen Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Comparative vocabulary, TamyenTamyen, California Language ArchiveTamyen, Papers of John P. Harrington, Part 2, Northern and Central CaliforniaTamien Nation, language, and culture
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Ohlone languages
Extinct languages of North America
History of the San Francisco Bay Area
Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
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