Hiaki language
E1040759
Hiaki language is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Yaqui (Hiaki) people of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName | Yaqui language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| autonymOfPeople | Hiaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| endangermentFactors |
language shift to English
ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yaqui people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geneticRelation |
related to Mayo language
ⓘ
related to other Cahitan languages ⓘ related to other Uto-Aztecan languages ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
everyday communication in some Yaqui communities
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual and ceremonial speech ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch |
documented in descriptive grammars
ⓘ
documented in dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicStandard | community-based orthographies used in Yaqui communities ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ tone-like pitch accent (analyzed by some linguists) ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some community and bilingual education programs ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | yaq ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan language family ⓘ |
| morphology | polysynthetic tendencies ⓘ |
| nativeName | Hiaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
northern Mexico
ⓘ
southwestern United States ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
community language classes
ⓘ
documentation projects by linguists and community members ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arizona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ Sonora NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| status |
minority language in Mexico
ⓘ
minority language in the United States ⓘ threatened language ⓘ |
| subfamily | Cahitan branch ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Yaqui communities in Arizona
ⓘ
Yaqui communities in Sonora ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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