The Gabrielino people now speak English but a few are attempting to revive their language by using it in everyday conversation and ceremonial contexts.

Presently, Gabrielino is also being used in language revitalization classes and in some public discussion regarding religious and environmental issues.

The language is primarily documented in the unpublished field notes of John Peabody Harrington made during that time.

[5] In 2004, Pamela Munro, now UCLA emeritus professor of linguistics, was asked to serve as a linguistic mentor to Tongva people who wanted to learn about their language at the Breath of Life Workshop, a biennial event in Berkeley staged by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.

[6] Since then, she has taught monthly Tongva language classes in which adults and children practice pronunciation, master the use of grammatical particles, sing songs and play word games.

[11] Tongva is an agglutinative language, where words use suffixes and multiple morphemes for a variety of purposes.