Cupeno language

E278636

The Cupeño language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language historically spoken by the Cupeño people of Southern California.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Cupeno language canonical 4
Kupa language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
endangered language
associatedReservation Los Coyotes Reservation
Mesa Grande Reservation
Pala Indian Reservation
surface form: Pala Reservation
closelyRelatedTo Cahuilla language
Luiseño language
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy Jane H. Hill
R. H. Robins
endangermentCause forced relocation of Cupeño people
language shift to English
ethnicGroup Cupeño people
family Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family
glottocode cupe1242
hasDialect Kupa dialect
Paluqla dialect
Wilaqalpa dialect
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasResource archival recordings
dictionaries
grammars
historicalRegion San Diego County
Warner Springs area
ISO639-3 cup
languageFamily Northern Uto-Aztecan
region Southern California
revitalizationEffort community language classes
documentation projects
spokenBy Cupeño people
status severely endangered
subfamily Takic branch
typology agglutinative language
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Takic peoples hasLanguage Cupeno language
Northern Uto-Aztecan containsLanguage Cupeno language
Takic languages hasLanguage Cupeno language
this entity surface form: Kupa language
Takic branch hasLanguage Cupeno language
Takic hasMember Cupeno language