Ipai

E321595

Ipai is a Yuman language variety traditionally spoken by the Ipai people of southern California and northern Baja California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ipai canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Yuman language
indigenous language of North America
alternateName Iipay
Kumeyaay people
surface form: Kumeyaay (narrow sense)

Diegueño
surface form: Northern Diegueño
closelyRelatedTo Kumeyaay people
surface form: Kumeyaay

Tipai
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicGroup Ipai people
hasDialect Mesa Grande Ipai
San Pasqual Ipai
Santa Ysabel Ipai
hasLinguisticResearch grammatical descriptions
lexicons and dictionaries
hasMorphologicalFeature person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
tone or pitch accent distinctions
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order
verb-final tendencies
ISO639-3Code ipi
languageFamily Yuman
languageRevitalization community-based language classes
documentation projects
languageStatus endangered language
region Baja California
surface form: northern Baja California

Southern California
surface form: southern California
spokenBy Ipai communities in San Diego County
Ipai communities in northern Baja California
subfamily Delta–California Yuman
traditionalUse everyday communication within Ipai communities
oral narratives
songs and ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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