Core Yuman

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Core Yuman is a subgroup of the Yuman language family comprising closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the Lower Colorado River region of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

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Label Occurrences
Core Yuman canonical 2

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Yuman language subgroup
language subgroup
ethnicGroup Yuman peoples
geographicDistribution border area of Arizona, California, and Baja California
Lower Colorado River region
surface form: lower Colorado River basin
hasCharacteristic Indigenous languages of North America
closely related member languages
endangered languages
primarily oral tradition historically
hasMorphologicalFeature predominantly agglutinative morphology (in member languages)
hasPart Cocopa language
Halchidhoma language
Halyikwamai language
Halyikwamai–Kavelchadom dialect cluster
Kavelchadom language
Kumeyaay language
surface form: Kumana (Kumeyaay) language

Maricopa language
Mojave language
surface form: Mohave language

Quechan language
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventories (in member languages)
hasSyntacticFeature tendency toward verb-final or flexible word order (in member languages)
hasWritingSystem Latin script (for modern documentation)
languageFamily Yuman language family
partOf Indigenous languages of northern Mexico
Indigenous languages of the Americas
Native American languages of the Southwestern United States
relatedTo Delta–California Yuman
surface form: Delta–California Yuman languages

River Yuman languages
spokenIn Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
spokenInRegion Lower Colorado River region
northwestern Mexico
southwestern United States
status severely endangered (many member languages)
studiedBy linguists specializing in Yuman languages
subclassOf Hokan languages
surface form: Hokan languages (proposed)

Yuman language family
surface form: Yuman languages
usedFor everyday communication within Yuman communities
ritual and ceremonial speech
traditional oral literature

Referenced by (2)

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

Mojave language languageBranch Core Yuman
Yuman hasSubfamily Core Yuman