Yuman

E74287

Yuman is a Native American language family of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, encompassing several related indigenous languages and peoples.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language family
language family
ethnicGroup Cocopa people
Havasupai people
Hualapai people
Kiliwa people NERFINISHED
Kumeyaay people
Maricopa people
Mojave people
surface form: "Mohave people"

Paipai people
Quechan people
Yavapai people
glottologCode yuma1252
hasFeature complex aspect system
limited nominal inflection
rich verbal morphology
hasLanguage Cocopa people
surface form: "Cocopa"

Hualapai people
surface form: "Havasupai–Hualapai"

Ipai
Kiliwa
Kumeyaay people
surface form: "Kumeyaay"

Maricopa
Mohave
Paipai
Quechan people
surface form: "Quechan"

Tipai
Yavapai
hasSubfamily Core Yuman
Delta–California Yuman
River Yuman
languageFamilyBranchOf proposed Hokan macrofamily
languageFamilyOf Yuman peoples
region Arizona
Baja California
California, United States
surface form: "California"

Sonora
spokenIn Mexico
Northwestern Mexico
southwestern United States
surface form: "Southwestern United States"

United States of America
surface form: "United States"
status endangered
studiedBy Edward Sapir
surface form: "linguist Edward Sapir"

linguist Margaret Langdon
subclassOf Hokan (proposed)
surface form: "Hokan languages hypothesis"
typology agglutinative
head-marking
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin script

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