Cahuilla language

E58090

Uto-Aztecan language endangered language indigenous language of the Americas

The Cahuilla language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan Native American language traditionally spoken by the Cahuilla people of Southern California.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Uto-Aztecan language → endangered language → indigenous language of the Americas →
belongsToCulturalArea	California cultural area →
branch	Northern Uto-Aztecan →
closelyRelatedTo	Cupeño language → Luiseño language → Serrano language →
country	United States of America →
currentUsage	limited to small number of speakers →
documentedBy	linguist Hansjakob Seiler → linguist William Bright →
documentedIn	dictionaries → grammars → text collections →
ethnicGroup	Cahuilla people →
family	Uto-Aztecan →
hasAlternativeName	Iviatim → Ivilyuat →
hasDialect	Desert Cahuilla → Mountain Cahuilla → Pass Cahuilla →
hasMorphologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology → rich verbal inflection →
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length → glottal stop phoneme →
hasSyntacticFeature	basic word order SOV →
historicalUsage	daily communication among Cahuilla people →
ISO639-3	chl →
languageFamily	Uto-Aztecan language family →
languageOf	Cahuilla Indian reservations →
region	Southern California →
revitalizationEffort	community language classes → dictionary compilation → documentation projects → language teaching in tribal schools →
status	severely endangered →
subfamily	Takic branch →
traditionalArea	Coachella Valley → Inland Southern California → San Jacinto Mountains → Santa Rosa Mountains →
UNESCOStatus	severely endangered →
usedBy	Cahuilla elders →
usedFor	ceremonial speech → oral narratives → traditional songs →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Morongo Band of Mission Indians → Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians →	traditionalLanguage
Northern Uto-Aztecan →	containsLanguage
Takic peoples →	hasLanguage
Cahuilla people →	language
Gabrielino-Fernandeño →	relatedTo