Washoe language
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The Washoe language is a critically endangered Native American language isolate traditionally spoken by the Washoe people of the Lake Tahoe region in California and Nevada.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Washoe" derived from an autonym often rendered as Waší:šiw or similar forms | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
language ⓘ language isolate ⓘ |
| classificationNote | considered an isolate despite proposals linking it to other families ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalDomain |
ceremonies
ⓘ
oral history ⓘ traditional stories ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | central to Washoe cultural identity ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | partially documented ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Washoe people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | Washo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticStudy | subject of descriptive and comparative studies ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordSource |
English
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ neighboring Native American languages ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | complex verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerStatus | very few fluent speakers remaining ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | relatively free word order ⓘ |
| hasWordOrderTendency | SOV ⓘ |
| intergenerationalTransmission | severely disrupted ⓘ |
| isNot |
Numic language
ⓘ
Penutian language ⓘ Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | was ⓘ |
| languageFamily | language isolate ⓘ |
| linguisticArea |
Great Basin linguistic area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguageRegion |
Maidu language area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miwok language area ⓘ Northern Paiute language area ⓘ |
| region | Lake Tahoe region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revitalizationStatus | subject of language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| scriptStatus | primarily written in practical orthographies developed by linguists ⓘ |
| spokenBy | small number of elderly speakers ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Nevada ⓘ |
| taughtIn | community language programs ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory | areas surrounding Lake Tahoe ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Washoe people
this entity surface form:
"Washoe" derived from an autonym often rendered as Waší:šiw or similar forms