Awaswas
Awaswas是Miwok-Costanoan 语系的一种语言，过去分布在美国，现已消亡。
Awaswas, or Santa Cruz, is one of eight Ohlone languages. It was historically spoken by the Awaswas people, an indigenous people of California. The last speaker of Awaswas died in the 19th century, and the language has been extinct ever since.
Linguists originally called the language Santa Cruz after the mission in the area, but it was renamed to Awaswas as part of a move in the late 1960s and early 1970s by graduate students at the University of California Berkeley to use native names for the Ohlone languages. 'Awaswas' is derived from the term ʔawas-was, meaning 'north-people from there'.
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