Quechan language

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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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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Yuman language
endangered language
indigenous language of North America
alternateName Kwtsaan
Yuma language
associatedPeople Quechan (Yuma) people
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Cocopa language
Maricopa language
Mohave language
continent North America
country United States
endonym 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
primaryScript Latin alphabet
region Fort Yuma Indian Reservation
southwestern United States
spokenIn Arizona
California
United States
lower Colorado River region
status moribund
threatened
taughtAt tribal education programs
usedFor oral tradition
storytelling
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script


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