Northern O’odham varieties
E1037689
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.
Statements (44)
| 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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.