Quechan language

E12184

The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Quechan language canonical 19
exonym "Quechan" 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Yuman language
endangered language
indigenous language of North America
alternateName Kwtsaan
Maricopa language
surface form: Yuma language
associatedPeople Quechan people
surface form: Quechan (Yuma) people
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Cocopa language
Maricopa language
Mojave language
surface form: Mohave language
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endonym Kwatsáan
surface form: Kwtsaan iiyáa
ethnicGroup Quechan people
glottocode quec1382
hasDialects no major dialectal division reported
hasGrammaticalFeature case marking on nouns
rich verbal morphology
switch-reference system
hasLinguisticDomain morphology
phonology
syntax
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
polysynthetic tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
iso639-3Code que
languageFamily Delta–California branch of Yuman
Hokan (proposed)
Yuman language family
languageRevitalization community-based classes
documentation projects
name Quechan people
surface form: Quechan
primaryScript Latin alphabet
region Fort Yuma Indian Reservation
southwestern United States
spokenIn Arizona
California, United States
surface form: California

United States of America
surface form: United States

lower Colorado River region
status moribund
threatened
taughtAt tribal education programs
usedFor oral tradition
storytelling
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yuman language family hasMemberLanguage Quechan language
Quechan people ethnonymLanguage Quechan language
Quechan people language Quechan language
Maricopa language closelyRelatedTo Quechan language
Kumeyaay language closelyRelatedTo Quechan language
Cocopa language closelyRelatedTo Quechan language
Yuman–Cochimí languages hasLanguage Quechan language
Kwatsáan languageOfOrigin Quechan language
Kwatsáan contrastsWith Quechan language
this entity surface form: exonym "Quechan"
Kumiai closelyRelatedTo Quechan language
Mojave language closelyRelatedTo Quechan language
Diegueño language relatedTo Quechan language
Mexican Cocopa hasLinguisticRelation Quechan language
Cocopah language closelyRelatedTo Quechan language
Quechan Indian Reservation tribalLanguage Quechan language
Piipaash language relatedTo Quechan language
Core Yuman hasPart Quechan language