Uncompahgre Ute

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Uncompahgre Ute is a dialect of the Ute language traditionally spoken by the Uncompahgre band of the Ute people in the western United States.

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Uncompahgre Ute canonical 1

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ute language variety
dialect
associatedWith Southern Ute Indian Tribe
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
belongsTo Native American languages of the Great Basin
Native American languages of the Southwest
closelyRelatedTo Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation
surface form: Northern Ute

Southern Ute Indian Tribe
surface form: Southern Ute
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalSignificance marker of Uncompahgre Ute identity
endangeredDueTo language shift to English
ethnicGroup Ute people
hasAlternativeName Uncompahgre Ute dialect
Uncompahgre Ute variety
hasDomain Ute spiritual practices
traditional ecological knowledge
hasGlottocode utee1244
hasISO639-3Code ute
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
hasMorphology polysynthetic features
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
historicalStatus traditionally spoken language of the Uncompahgre band
languageBranch Numic languages
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
languageStatus endangered language
languageSubbranch Southern Numic
surface form: Southern Numic languages
partOf Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
surface form: Ute dialect continuum
region western United States
surface form: Western United States
revitalizationEffort community language classes
documentation projects
spokenBy Ute people
surface form: Uncompahgre Ute people

Uncompahgre band of the Ute
subdivisionOf Ute language
traditionalRegion eastern Utah
surface form: Eastern Utah

Uncompahgre Valley
surface form: Uncompahgre River Valley

Western Colorado
usedFor cultural transmission
usedIn ceremonial contexts
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Ute language hasDialect Uncompahgre Ute