Delta Yokuts

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Delta Yokuts is a variety of the Yokutsan indigenous languages traditionally spoken in the San Joaquin River Delta region of California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Delta Yokuts canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language variety
Yokutsan language variety
indigenous language variety
closelyRelatedTo Northern Valley Yokuts
surface form: Northern Yokuts varieties

Valley Yokuts varieties
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy field linguists working on Yokutsan languages
endangeredFactors displacement of Yokuts communities
historical suppression of Native languages
language shift to English
ethnicGroup Yokuts people
hasCategory Indigenous languages of California
American Indian languages
surface form: Native American languages of North America

Yokutsan languages
hasLinguisticFeature case-marking on nouns
complex suffixation
rich verbal morphology
vowel length distinctions
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
isPartOf Indigenous languages of California
surface form: California indigenous languages

Native American languages of the West Coast
languageFamily Penutian languages
surface form: Penutian (proposed)

Yokutsan
partOf Yokutsan languages
surface form: Yokutsan language family
region Central California
spokenIn California, United States
surface form: California

Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
surface form: San Joaquin River Delta

United States of America
surface form: United States
status endangered language variety
moribund language variety
subclassOf Yokutsan languages
traditionalTerritory Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
surface form: San Joaquin River Delta region
usedBy Yokuts communities of the San Joaquin River Delta
usedFor ceremonial speech
everyday communication (historically)
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script (for modern documentation)

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

Yokutsan languages hasDialect Delta Yokuts