Luiseño
The Luiseño are Amerindian people which lived, at the time of the first contacts with the Spanish at the 16th century, in the coastal region of the California of the south. In the Luiseño language, the people dédigne under the name of " Payomkowishum" , which wants to say " Populate of Ouest". Their Spanish name is due in their vicinity of the Mission San Luís Rey de Francia (" The Mission of Saint Louis King de France "), which was founded the June 13rd 1789 by the father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, in what today is Oceanside, in the north of the Comté of San Diego.
The Luiseño language belongs to the family of the Uto-Aztecan Langues and is threatened because she is spoken only by a few tens of people. Perhaps however a project of revitalization of this language is in hand and will cure its extinction.
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