Kitanemuk

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Kitanemuk is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Kitanemuk people in what is now Southern California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kitanemuk canonical 9

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
language
belongsToMacroArea North America
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy John Peabody Harrington
documentedIn field notes
endangeredStatus extinct language
ethnicGroup Kitanemuk people NERFINISHED
extinction 20th century
hasAlternateName Kitanemuk language
surface form: Kitanemuk Indian language

Kitanemuk language
hasDocumentationType grammatical notes
texts
word lists
hasGlottologCode kita1249
hasGlottologName Kitanemuk self-link
hasGrammaticalFeature case marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
derivational suffixes
hasLanguageStatus no known native speakers remaining
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasMorphology polysynthetic tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasWordOrder SOV
isPartOf Takic branch of Uto-Aztecan
isRelatedTo Cahuilla language
Gabrielino-Fernandeño language
Luiseño language
Serrano language
Tataviam language
languageCodeISO3 ktn
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
languageShiftedTo English
Spanish
region Southern California
spokenBy Kitanemuk people NERFINISHED
spokenIn California, United States
surface form: California
spokenNear Antelope Valley
San Joaquin Valley
surface form: San Joaquin Valley margin

Tehachapi Mountains
status extinct
subfamilyOf Takic languages
usedBy indigenous people of California
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (9)

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

Proto-Uto-Aztecan hasDescendant Kitanemuk
Kitanemuk people hasAutonym Kitanemuk
Kitanemuk people hasDemonym Kitanemuk
Kitanemuk language ethnicGroup Kitanemuk
Tübatulabal neighboringPeople Kitanemuk
Kitanemuk hasGlottologName Kitanemuk self-link