Washo

E370354

Native American language language language isolate

Washo is a Native American language isolate traditionally spoken by the Washoe people of the Lake Tahoe region in California and Nevada.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Washo canonical	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language ⓘ language ⓘ language isolate ⓘ
basicWordOrder	SOV ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endangermentStatus	severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Washoe people ⓘ
glottologCode	wash1253 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Washo language ⓘ Washoe ⓘ
hasCaseMarking	postpositions ⓘ suffixal case markers ⓘ
hasDocumentation	dictionaries ⓘ grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ
hasLinguisticArea	Great Basin linguistic area ⓘ North America ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative ⓘ polysynthetic ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguage	Maidu people ⓘ surface form: Maidu Miwok languages ⓘ Northern Paiute ⓘ Southern Sierra Miwok ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ ejective consonants ⓘ glottalized consonants ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort	community language programs ⓘ documentation projects ⓘ
hasStressPattern	predictable stress system ⓘ
hasTypologicalFeature	complex predicate structure ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ switch-reference-like constructions ⓘ
iso639-3Code	was ⓘ
languageFamily	language isolate ⓘ
region	Great Basin ⓘ Sierra Nevada ⓘ surface form: Sierra Nevada (United States)
spokenBy	Washoe people ⓘ
traditionalRegion	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Lake Tahoe Basin ⓘ surface form: Lake Tahoe region Nevada ⓘ
usedBy	small number of elderly speakers ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

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

Washo language → glottologName → Washo ⓘ