Yokutsan languages

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Native American language family language family

Yokutsan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Yokuts people of California’s Central Valley.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Yokuts languages 3
Foothill Yokuts dialects 1
Valley Yokuts dialects 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language family ⓘ
language family ⓘ
arealFeature California linguistic area ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
documentedBy linguists ⓘ
documentedIn dictionaries ⓘ
grammars ⓘ
text collections ⓘ
ethnicGroup Yokuts people ⓘ
feature complex consonant clusters ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
vowel length contrast ⓘ
geneticAffiliation proposed Penutian languages ⓘ
hasDialect Choynimni ⓘ
Chukchansi ⓘ
Delta Yokuts ⓘ
Kern River Yokuts ⓘ
surface form: Foothill Yokuts

Gashowu ⓘ
Kern River Yokuts ⓘ
surface form: Kings River Yokuts

Northern Valley Yokuts ⓘ
Palewyami ⓘ
Kern River Yokuts ⓘ
surface form: Southern Valley Yokuts

Tachi ⓘ
Tulare Lake Yokuts ⓘ
Northern Valley Yokuts ⓘ
surface form: Valley Yokuts

Me-wuk ⓘ
surface form: Wukchumni

Yowlumne ⓘ
historicalRegion San Joaquin River Basin ⓘ
surface form: San Joaquin River basin

Tulare Basin ⓘ
surface form: Tulare Lake basin
ISOClassification no single ISO 639-3 code for the family ⓘ
languageFamily Yok-Utian languages ⓘ
languageShiftTo English ⓘ
linguisticTypology agglutinative language ⓘ
morphology polysynthetic morphology ⓘ
region San Joaquin Valley ⓘ
Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ
revitalization community language programs ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ
spokenIn California, United States ⓘ
surface form: California

California Central Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ
status moribund ⓘ
partially extinct ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ
subclassificationStatus controversial ⓘ
timeDepth pre-contact California ⓘ
usedBy Yokuts people ⓘ
surface form: Yokuts tribes
wordOrder SOV ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

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

Yokuts people → hasDialect → Yokutsan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Valley Yokuts dialects
Yokuts people → hasDialect → Yokutsan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Foothill Yokuts dialects
Penutian languages → hasSubgroup → Yokutsan languages ⓘ
Hokan languages → includes → Yokutsan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yokuts languages
Kern River Yokuts → languageFamily → Yokutsan languages ⓘ
Yokuts people → languageFamily → Yokutsan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yokuts languages
Utian → relatedTo → Yokutsan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yokuts languages