Newberry Mountains language
E475109
The Newberry Mountains language, more commonly known as Kawaiisu, is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newberry Mountains language canonical | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of California ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Kawaiisu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | well-established within Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kawaiisu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternateSpelling | Kawaiisu language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestralPeople | Kawaiisu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
archival recordings
ⓘ
grammatical descriptions ⓘ lexicons ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kawa1280 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Kawaiisu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | xaw ⓘ |
| hasLanguageShiftTo | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | complex verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasPhylum | Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isEndangeredIn | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Numic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Kawaiisu community members ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | severely moribund ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Kitanemuk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Serrano NERFINISHED ⓘ Timbisha NERFINISHED ⓘ Tübatulabal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few fluent speakers ⓘ |
| region | southern California ⓘ |
| revitalizationEfforts |
community language classes
ⓘ
documentation and archiving projects ⓘ |
| subfamily | Numic branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Mojave Desert margins
ⓘ
Tehachapi Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ |
| usedIn |
songs and ceremonial contexts
ⓘ
traditional narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (practical orthographies) ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.