Makah language
E530450
The Makah language is a critically endangered Southern Wakashan language traditionally spoken by the Makah people of the northwestern Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, USA.
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern Wakashan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of North America ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Makah Tribe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ditidaht language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nuu-chah-nulth language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance |
central to Makah identity
ⓘ
vehicle for transmission of Makah oral history ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Makah people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | maka1318 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Makah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Makah Indian language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Proto-Wakashan language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
ceremonial practices
ⓘ
traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | qʷi·qʷi·diččaq ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
incorporation of nouns into verbs
ⓘ
rich derivational morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | complex verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | polysynthetic ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
ejective consonants ⓘ uvular consonants ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryWordOrderTendency | verb-initial ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | myh ⓘ |
| isPartOf | North American Pacific Coast linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Southern branch of Wakashan ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Wakashan languages ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
documented by linguists
ⓘ
taught in community language programs ⓘ |
| revitalizationStatus | undergoing revitalization ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern Olympic Peninsula ⓘ |
| statusInCommunity | few fluent elder speakers ⓘ |
| subfamily | Southern Wakashan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalSpeakers | Makah people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| usedBy | Makah Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.