Ipai-Tipai

E75124
Native American language Yuman language indigenous language

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

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Ipai-Tipai canonical 2
Ipai 1
Ipai–Tipai 1

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 of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
culturalRole key marker of Kumeyaay identity ⓘ
documentation grammars and wordlists by linguists of Yuman languages ⓘ
ethnicGroup Kumeyaay people ⓘ
surface form: 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 ⓘ
surface form: southern California
ISO639-3 nai (for Kumeyaay/Ipai-Tipai complex) ⓘ
languageBranch Hokan (proposed) ⓘ
languageFamily Yuman ⓘ
linguisticTypology agglutinative morphology (Yuman-type) ⓘ
region Baja California ⓘ
surface form: Baja California Peninsula

San Diego County ⓘ
surface form: San Diego County, California
relatedTo Diegueño language ⓘ
surface form: Diegueño languages
spokenBy Kumeyaay people ⓘ
spokenIn Baja California ⓘ
Southern California ⓘ
surface form: 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) ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
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# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ipai-Tipai
Description of subject: Ipai-Tipai is a Yuman language of the Kumeyaay people indigenous to the Baja California and southern California region.

Referenced by (6)

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

Kumeyaay language → hasDialect → Ipai-Tipai ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ipai
Kumeyaay language → alsoKnownAs → Ipai-Tipai ⓘ
Ipai language → hasDialect → Ipai-Tipai ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Ipai
Ipai language → hasDialect → Ipai-Tipai ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Ipai
Kumeyaay people → alsoKnownAs → Ipai-Tipai ⓘ
Kumiai → hasAlternativeName → Ipai-Tipai ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ipai–Tipai