Northern O’odham varieties

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Northern O’odham varieties are a group of closely related dialects spoken by O’odham communities in the northern part of the O’odham language area, primarily in the U.S. Southwest.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf O’odham language variety
dialect cluster
areCloselyRelatedTo Southern O’odham varieties
areDocumentedIn O’odham dictionaries
ethnographic studies of O’odham communities
grammars of O’odham
areEndangered true
areMutuallyIntelligibleWith other O’odham dialects to a high degree
areRecognizedBy tribal education programs in Arizona
areTaughtIn some community schools
areUsedIn bilingual education materials
hasDialect Akimel O’odham NERFINISHED
Hia-Ced O’odham NERFINISHED
Tohono O’odham NERFINISHED
haveBasicWordOrderTendency SOV
haveGrammaticalFeature split-ergative alignment tendencies in some analyses
havePhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottal stop phoneme
haveWordOrder relatively free word order
languageBranch Tepiman NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED
locatedIn northern part of the O’odham language area
partOf O’odham language area
region U.S. Southwest NERFINISHED
spokenBy Akimel O’odham communities
O’odham people NERFINISHED
Tohono O’odham communities NERFINISHED
spokenIn Arizona NERFINISHED
Sonoran Desert region NERFINISHED
Southwestern United States NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
subclassOf O’odham language NERFINISHED
Southern Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED
Tepiman languages
Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
linguistic documentation projects
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
use of aspectual prefixes
verb-heavy morphology
usedFor ceremonial contexts
daily communication in some O’odham communities
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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O’odham language continuum hasPart Northern O’odham varieties