Caliente

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Caliente is an alternative name for the Kawaiisu language, a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of California.

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Caliente canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
language
alternativeNameOf Kawaiisu language NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalSignificance key component of Kawaiisu cultural identity
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicity Kawaiisu people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Kawaiisu NERFINISHED
Tehachapi NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticType agglutinative language
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
isDocumentedBy linguistic fieldwork
ISO639-3Code xaw
isPartOf indigenous languages of California
isSubjectOf language revitalization efforts
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED
region California NERFINISHED
spokenBy Kawaiisu people NERFINISHED
subfamily Numic languages NERFINISHED
traditionalRegion Tehachapi Mountains NERFINISHED
south-central California
southern Sierra Nevada NERFINISHED
usedIn ceremonial contexts
traditional narratives
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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