Lipan language

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The Lipan language is an extinct Southern Athabaskan language once spoken by the Lipan Apache people of the southern Great Plains and northern Mexico.

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Lipan language canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Southern Athabaskan language
extinct language
associatedWith Lipan Apache traditional culture
oral tradition of the Lipan Apache
belongsToMacroFamily Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene languages
branchOf Apachean languages
closelyRelatedTo Jicarilla language
Mescalero language
surface form: Mescalero-Chiricahua language

Western Apache language
continent North America
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy Harry Hoijer
other 20th-century linguists
documentedIn word lists collected by early ethnographers
endonym Ndé language
ethnicGroup Lipan Apache
extinctionCause language shift to English
language shift to Spanish
glottocode lipa1248
glottologName Lipan Apache
hasAlternativeName Lipan Apache language
Lipan Apache language
surface form: Ndé Apache language
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
verb-heavy morphology
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
pronominal prefixes on verbs
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal contrasts (like other Southern Athabaskan languages)
hasSubjectObjectMarking on verb complex
hasWordOrder relatively free word order
iso639-3Code apl
languageFamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan languages
languageOf North America
languageShiftTo English
Spanish
region northern Mexico
southern Great Plains
spokenBy Lipan Apache
surface form: Lipan Apache people
status extinct
subfamily Southern Athabaskan
surface form: Southern Athabaskan languages
usedFor ceremonial speech (historically)
everyday communication (historically)
usedIn Chihuahua, Mexico
surface form: Chihuahua (historically)

Coahuila
surface form: Coahuila (historically)

Nuevo León
surface form: Nuevo León (historically)

Coahuila y Tejas
surface form: Texas (historically)
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Apache tribes speaks Lipan language