Chiricahua language

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The Chiricahua language is an Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Chiricahua Apache people of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chiricahua Apache language 6
Chiricahua language canonical 4

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Southern Athabaskan language
indigenous language of North America
alsoKnownAs Chiricahua Apache
branchOf Apachean branch of Southern Athabaskan
closelyRelatedTo Mescalero language
culturallyAssociatedWith Chiricahua Apache oral history
Chiricahua Apache traditional culture
documentedBy linguists of Athabaskan languages
endonym Ndeʼ
glottocode mesc1239
grammaticalAlignment nominative-accusative (at clause level)
hasFeature complex verb morphology
prefixing morphology
tone
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom English
Spanish
hasMorphologicalFeature aspectual prefixes
classificatory verb stems
mode prefixes
pronominal prefixes
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
ejective consonants
nasalized vowels
hasRevitalizationEfforts community-based language programs
hasSpeakerCommunity Chiricahua Apache descendants
hasTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
hasWordOrder flexible word order
ISO639-3 apm
isPartOf Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene language family
languageFamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan languages
primaryWordOrderTendency SOV
region Arizona
Chihuahua
New Mexico
Sonora
Texas
spokenBy Chiricahua Apache
surface form: Chiricahua Apache people
spokenIn southwestern United States
surface form: Southwestern United States

Northern Mexico
surface form: northern Mexico
status endangered language
subfamily Apachean languages
usedBy Chiricahua Apache
surface form: Chiricahua Apache community
usedIn ceremonial contexts
songs
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (10)

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

Apache hasLanguage Chiricahua language
Cochise (Apache leader) nativeLanguage Chiricahua language
subject surface form: Cochise
this entity surface form: Chiricahua Apache language
Chiricahua Apache language Chiricahua language
Nednhi Apache language Chiricahua language
this entity surface form: Chiricahua Apache language
Juh languageSpoken Chiricahua language
this entity surface form: Chiricahua Apache language
Naiche nativeLanguage Chiricahua language
this entity surface form: Chiricahua Apache language
Naiche languageSpoken Chiricahua language
this entity surface form: Chiricahua Apache language
Western Apache language closelyRelatedTo Chiricahua language
this entity surface form: Chiricahua Apache language
Apachean languages hasMember Chiricahua language
Apache groups areSpeakersOf Chiricahua language