Yoeme language

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Yoeme language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Yaqui (Yoeme) people of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

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Label Occurrences
Yoeme language canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American language
Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language
alternativeName Yaqui language NERFINISHED
Yoeme yoem noki NERFINISHED
associatedWithCulture Yaqui deer dance tradition
associatedWithReligion Yaqui syncretic Catholicism
belongsToBranch Southern Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Mayo language NERFINISHED
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicGroup Yaqui NERFINISHED
hasDomain home and community use
religious and ceremonial contexts
hasFeature postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verbal morphology
switch-reference markers (in some analyses)
hasGlottocode yaqu1251
hasISO639-3Code yaq
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts bilingual education programs
community-based classes
documentation projects
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish NERFINISHED
hasMorphology polysynthetic tendencies
hasNumberOfSpeakers tens of thousands
hasPart distinct ceremonial register
everyday colloquial register
hasPhonology contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasTypology agglutinative language
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndonymFor Yaqui language NERFINISHED
isPartOf Cahita languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family NERFINISHED
region Arizona, United States NERFINISHED
Sonora, Mexico NERFINISHED
spokenBy Yaqui people NERFINISHED
Yoeme people NERFINISHED
spokenInCommunity Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Arizona NERFINISHED
Yoeme communities in Phoenix, Arizona
Yoeme communities in Tucson, Arizona
status endangered language
threatened language
subfamily Cahita branch
usedIn oral storytelling
ritual songs
traditional Yaqui ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Yaqui language hasAlternativeName Yoeme language