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.

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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)

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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