Gashowu

E376465

Gashowu is a dialect of the Yokutsan family of Indigenous languages traditionally spoken in California’s Central Valley.

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Gashowu canonical 1

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Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Yokutsan language
dialect
indigenous language variety
belongsTo Native American languages of California
indigenous languages of the United States
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedIn field notes by linguists of Yokutsan languages
ethnicGroup Yokuts
hasLinguisticFeature case-marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
vowel length contrast
hasTypology agglutinative language
indigenousTo California, United States
surface form: California

Central Valley
surface form: California's Central Valley
ISO639Status no individual ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Yokutsan
languageFamilyHigher Yok-Utian (proposed)
languageShiftTo English
languageStatus endangered language
severely endangered language
morphologyType suffixing
partOf Yokutsan languages
surface form: Yokutsan language continuum
region Central California
relatedTo Northern Valley Yokuts
Northern Valley Yokuts
surface form: Valley Yokuts
revitalizationStatus subject of documentation and revitalization efforts
spokenBy Yokuts people
surface form: Gashowu Yokuts people
subclassOf Yokutsan dialect
traditionalTerritory Central Valley
surface form: Central Valley of California

San Joaquin Valley
UNESCOStatus critically endangered (approximate)
usedFor ceremonial speech
everyday communication (historically)
oral tradition
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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