Chimariko

E408928

Chimariko is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Chimariko people in northwestern California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chimariko canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
extinct language
indigenous language of California
belongsToMacroArea North America
surface form: North America (linguistic macro-area)
continent North America
country United States of America
documentedBy J. P. Harrington NERFINISHED
Roland B. Dixon NERFINISHED
documentedIn field notes
grammatical sketches
word lists
endonym Chimariko NERFINISHED
ethnicity Chimariko people NERFINISHED
extinctionDate early 20th century (approximate)
glottologName Chimariko NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Chimaliko (variant spelling)
hasContactLanguage English
neighboring Athabaskan languages
hasDocumentationStatus poorly documented
hasEndangermentStatus extinct (EGIDS 10)
hasGlottocode chim1300
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking
polysynthetic
verb-final tendency
hasMorphologicalFeature pronominal affixes on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasNeighboringLanguage Hupa
Shasta
Wintu
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
small phoneme inventory
hasSociolinguisticStatus no native speakers remaining
hasWordOrder SOV (tendency)
ISO639-3 cid
languageCodeType ISO 639-3
languageFamily Hokan (proposed)
partOf Native languages of North America
region Trinity River Basin
surface form: Trinity River area
spokenBy Chimariko people NERFINISHED
spokenIn United States of America
surface form: United States

Northern California
surface form: northwestern California
status extinct
usedFor everyday communication (historically)
ritual and ceremonial speech
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin script (for documentation)

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