Ipai-Tipai

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Ipai-Tipai is a Yuman language of the Kumeyaay people indigenous to the Baja California and southern California region.

Aliases (4)

Statements (38)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Yuman language
indigenous language
alternativeName Ipai
Kamia (for some varieties)
Kumeyaay language
Tipai
closelyRelatedTo Kumeyaay (in broader sense)
country Mexico
United States
culturalRole key marker of Kumeyaay identity
documentation grammars and wordlists by linguists of Yuman languages
ethnicGroup Kumeyaay
hasDialect Ipai dialects
Kamia dialect
Tipai dialects
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
rich consonant inventory typical of Yuman languages
indigenousTo Baja California
southern California
ISO639-3 nai (for Kumeyaay/Ipai-Tipai complex)
languageBranch Hokan (proposed)
languageFamily Yuman
linguisticTypology agglutinative morphology (Yuman-type)
region Baja California Peninsula
San Diego County, California NERFINISHED
relatedTo Diegueño languages
spokenBy Kumeyaay people
spokenIn Baja California
southern California
status endangered language
subfamily Delta–California Yuman
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
usedBy Kumeyaay communities in San Diego County
Kumeyaay communities in northern Baja California
usedIn oral storytelling traditions of the Kumeyaay
traditional Kumeyaay ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script (practical orthographies)

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Ipai language ("Northern Ipai")
Ipai language ("Southern Ipai")
Kumeyaay language ("Ipai")
hasDialect
Kumeyaay language
Kumeyaay people
alsoKnownAs
Kumiai ("Ipai–Tipai")
hasAlternativeName

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