Eastern Mono

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Eastern Mono is a dialect of the Native American Mono language traditionally spoken by the Mono people of eastern California.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language variety
dialect
alternateName Eastern Mono dialect NERFINISHED
Eastern Mono language variety NERFINISHED
Owens Valley Paiute dialect
belongsTo Great Basin linguistic area NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy linguists specializing in Uto-Aztecan languages
ethnicGroup Mono people NERFINISHED
hasCulturalAssociation Mono oral history
Mono traditional ecological knowledge
hasDialectsOrVarieties Owens Valley Paiute NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode easte2690
hasISO639-3Code mnr
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts community-based language classes
documentation projects
isDialectOf Mono (ISO 639-3: mnr) NERFINISHED
isPartOf indigenous languages of California
languages of North America
languageBranch Numic languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED
languageShiftTo English
languageSubbranch Western Numic languages
linguisticTypology Numic branch typology
morphologicalType agglutinative
mutualIntelligibility partially mutually intelligible with Western Mono
neighboringLanguages Northern Paiute NERFINISHED
Southern Sierra Miwok NERFINISHED
Tübatulabal NERFINISHED
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory typical of Numic languages
region eastern California
relatedTo Western Mono NERFINISHED
scriptType alphabet
spokenBy Mono communities in Owens Valley
Mono communities near Mono Lake
status endangered language variety
severely endangered
subdivisionOf Mono language NERFINISHED
traditionalRegion Mono Lake region, California NERFINISHED
Owens Valley, California NERFINISHED
Sierra Nevada, California NERFINISHED
usedIn ceremonial contexts
traditional narratives
traditional songs
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Mono language hasDialect Eastern Mono
Mono hasDialect Eastern Mono
subject surface form: Mono language