Mono

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Mono is a Native American language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, traditionally spoken in parts of California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mono canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Numic language
Uto-Aztecan language
alsoKnownAs Monachi
Owens Valley Paiute
surface form: Mono Paiute

Owens Valley Paiute
belongsToSubgroup Western Numic
classificationStatus well-established within Numic
closelyRelatedTo Northern Paiute language
Panamint (Koso) language
surface form: Panamint language
continent North America
country United States of America
culturalAssociation oral storytelling traditions
traditional Mono ceremonies
endangermentCause language shift to English
ethnicGroup Mono people
hasDialect Eastern Mono
Western Mono
hasLinguisticDocumentation dictionaries
grammars
text collections
hasMorphologicalFeature derivational suffixes
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticFeature limited intergenerational transmission
primarily spoken by older adults
hasSpeakerCommunity Mono Indian communities of California
ISO639-3Code mnr
languageBranch Numic
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
languageTypology agglutinative language
partOf Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family
region Central California
Sierra Nevada
Great Basin
surface form: Western Great Basin
revitalizationEfforts community language classes
documentation projects
spokenIn California, United States
surface form: California

United States of America
surface form: United States
status endangered language
severely endangered language
subfamilyOf Numic branch
traditionalRegion eastern California
usedBy Mono tribal governments in cultural programs
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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