Tipai

E73018

Tipai is a Yuman language variety traditionally spoken by the Tipai people of northern Baja California and southern California, closely related to other Kumeyaay dialects.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tipai canonical 11
Tipai-Ipai 1

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Yuman language
indigenous language of the Americas
closelyRelatedTo Ipai
Kumeyaay people
surface form: Kumeyaay
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy field linguists in the 20th century
endangermentCause language shift to English
language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Tipai people
hasAlternativeName Diegueño
surface form: Diegueño (historical term)

Kumeyaay language
surface form: Kumeyaay (southern variety)

Tipay
hasDialects coastal Tipai
inland Tipai
hasLinguisticFeature complex aspect system
rich verbal morphology
use of clitics
verb-final word order tendency
ISO639-3 tpe
languageFamily Yuman
partOf Hokan languages
surface form: Hokan language phylum (proposed)

Yuman language family
region Baja California
San Diego County
revitalizationEffort community language classes
documentation and dictionary projects
spokenIn northern Baja California
Southern California
surface form: southern California
status endangered language
subclassOf Upland Yuman
surface form: Delta–California Yuman language

Kumeyaay language
surface form: Kumeyaay language continuum
usedBy Tipai communities in northern Baja California
Tipai communities in southern California
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kumiai hasAlternativeName Tipai
Kumiai hasDialect Tipai
Diegueño hasDialect Tipai
Yuman hasLanguage Tipai
Diegueño language alternateName Tipai
this entity surface form: Tipai-Ipai
Ipai closelyRelatedTo Tipai
Tipai people hasEndonym Tipai
Tipay alternativeNameOf Tipai
Tipay spokenBy Tipai
subject surface form: Tipai language