Yuman language family

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The Yuman language family is a group of closely related Indigenous languages spoken primarily in the lower Colorado River region and adjacent areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family
language family
associatedWithEthnicGroup Cocopa people
Havasupai people
Hualapai people
Kiliwa people
Kumeyaay people
Maricopa people
Mojave people
surface form: Mohave people

Paipai people
Quechan people
Yavapai people
geographicDistribution Arizona
Baja California
California, United States
surface form: California

Sonoran Desert
surface form: Sonora
hasAlternativeName Yuman–Cochimí languages
hasMemberLanguage Cocopa language
Havasupai–Hualapai language
Ipai language
Kiliwa language
Kumeyaay language
Maricopa language
Mohave language
Paipai language
Quechan language
Ipai language
surface form: Tipai language

Yavapai language
hasSubgroup Yuman language family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Core Yuman languages

Yuman language family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Delta–California Yuman languages

River Yuman languages
hasWritingSystem Latin script (for some languages)
historicallyAssociatedWith Lower Colorado River region
surface form: Lower Colorado River Valley
languageFamilyStatus endangered
recognizedBy linguistic classification of North American indigenous languages
spokenIn Lower Colorado River region
Mexico
Sonoran Desert
surface form: Northwestern Mexico

southwestern United States
surface form: Southwestern United States

United States of America
surface form: United States
subclassOf Hokan languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
verb–final word order tendency
usedIn ceremonial contexts
oral tradition

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Referenced by (85)

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

Mission Indians languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Yavapai languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
North American language family includes Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Pee-Posh languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Piipaash language languageFamily Yuman language family
Piipaash language hasAncestor Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Proto-Yuman language
Hokan (proposed) hasLanguageMemberProposed Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Tipai people languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Kamia people languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Halchidhoma people languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Havasupai–Walapai–Yavapai partOf Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Core Yuman subclassOf Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
River Yuman partOf Yuman language family
River Yuman subgroupOf Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Mojave languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
dih languageFamily Yuman language family
subject surface form: Diegueño language
Mesa Grande Diegueño languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
linguist Margaret Langdon fieldOfWork Yuman language family
subject surface form: Margaret Langdon
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
linguist Margaret Langdon studied Yuman language family
subject surface form: Margaret Langdon
Yahi subgroup of Yana people broaderCategory Yuman language family
subject surface form: Yahi
this entity surface form: Yuman–Yukian peoples (linguistic classification context)
Kamia dialect languageFamily Yuman language family
Delta–California Yuman partOf Yuman language family
Delta–California Yuman subclassOf Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Tolkepaya dialect languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Tolkepaya dialect branchOf Yuman language family
Southwestern branch of Yuman languages subclassOf Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Southwestern branch of Yuman languages partOf Yuman language family
Takic neighboringLanguageGroups Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
J. P. Harrington studied Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages
Cocopa (Mexico) languageFamily Yuman language family
Cucapá languageFamily Yuman language family
Barona Band of Mission Indians languageFamily Yuman language family
this entity surface form: Yuman languages