Pima

E81121

Pima is a Native American language of the Uto-Aztecan family traditionally spoken by the Akimel O’odham (Pima) people of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Pima canonical 13
Akimel O’odham 6
O’odham 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language of North America
alternateName Akimel O’odham language
Pima language
belongsToCulturalArea Tohono O'odham
surface form: O’odham cultural area

Southwestern cultural area of North America
closelyRelatedTo O’odham language continuum
Tohono O'odham
surface form: Tohono O’odham
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicGroupAssociated Pima self-linksurface differs
surface form: Akimel O’odham

Tohono O'odham
surface form: O’odham peoples
governingTribalEntities Gila River Indian Community
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
hasGlottocode pima1248
hasISO639-3Code pim
hasLinguisticDocumentation dictionaries
grammars
text collections
hasLoanwordsFrom English
Spanish
hasMorphologicalFeature noun incorporation (limited)
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottal stop phoneme
historicalContactWith English
surface form: English language

Spanish language
languageBranch O’odham group
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
languageRevitalization community-based programs
languageStatus endangered language
region Northern Mexico
southwestern United States
surface form: Southwestern United States
spokenBy Pima people
surface form: Akimel O’odham people

Pima people
subfamily Southern Uto-Aztecan
taughtIn tribal schools (limited)
traditionalTerritory Gila River region
Salt River
surface form: Salt River region
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
verb-final tendencies
usedIn ceremonial contexts
community life of Akimel O’odham
traditional oral literature
wordOrder flexible word order
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (20)

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

Uto-Aztecan includesLanguage Pima
this entity surface form: O’odham
lower Gila River hasCulturalSignificanceFor Pima
this entity surface form: Akimel O’odham
Pima ethnicGroupAssociated Pima self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Akimel O’odham
Gila River Indian Community hasEthnicGroup Pima
this entity surface form: Akimel O’odham
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community composedPrimarilyOf Pima
this entity surface form: Akimel O’odham
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ethnicGroup Pima
this entity surface form: Akimel O’odham
Pima people nativeName Pima
this entity surface form: Akimel O’odham