Rumsen language

The Rumsen language was spoken from the Pajaro River to Point Sur, and on the lower courses of the Pajaro, as well as on the Salinas and Carmel Rivers, and the region of the present-day cities of Salinas, Monterey and Carmel.

The Bureau of American Ethnology linguist John Peabody Harrington conducted very extensive fieldwork with Meadows in the last several years of her life.

These notes, still mostly unpublished, now constitute the foundation for current linguistic research and revitalization efforts on the Rumsen language.

[1] The Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe has been in the process of reestablishing their language.

[citation needed] Dialects of the Rumsen language were spoken by four independent local tribes, including the Rumsen themselves, the Ensen of the Salinas vicinity, the Calendaruc of the central shoreline of Monterey Bay, and the Sargentaruc of the Big Sur Coast.

Mission San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo , where many Rumsen were brought to live in the Mission Era.
Myth of the Coyote in the Rumsen language recorded by Alfred L. Kroeber in 1902
Body parts in Rumsen