Tovaangar. The word is hard to pronounce, three syllables, the accent falling on the second and the ng pronounced as in “singer,” not “finger.” It is part of the language of the original people of Los Angeles, the Tongva.
,” she says, “is causative. If we created a word for ‘to cause to know,’ we would need to put aUCLA linguist Pam Munro leads a monthly class in San Pedro where students are trying to revive the lost language of Los Angeles’ Tongva people.
“She experiences linguistics as a series of puzzles. That’s different than learning a language,” said Allen Munro, her husband of 50 years, who is also a student in the class. “She is always trying to figure out what’s going on inside these languages.” “Finding out new things about a language that nobody has analyzed before, from a linguist’s point of view, that is what excited and grabbed me,” she said. “It is the most incredible high: figuring out how the language works and making good friends at the time.”
Surrounded by other tribes — Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, Cahuilla, Luiseño — the Tongva traded with one another, intermarried, learned their languages. “Language is ethnicity,” said linguist David Bellos. “Language identifies you; it informs listeners who you are.”
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