Pima

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Native American language Uto-Aztecan language indigenous language of North America

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.

Aliases (2)

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	O’odham cultural area → Southwestern cultural area of North America →
closelyRelatedTo	O’odham language continuum → Tohono O’odham →
country	Mexico → United States →
ethnicGroupAssociated	Akimel O’odham → 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 language → Spanish language →
languageBranch	O’odham group →
languageFamily	Uto-Aztecan →
languageRevitalization	community-based programs →
languageStatus	endangered language →
region	Northern Mexico → Southwestern United States →
spokenBy	Akimel O’odham people → Pima people →
subfamily	Southern Uto-Aztecan →
taughtIn	tribal schools (limited) →
traditionalTerritory	Gila River region → 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 (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Uto-Aztecan → Uto-Aztecan ("O’odham") →	includesLanguage
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ("Akimel O’odham") →	composedPrimarilyOf
Sonora →	containsIndigenousPeople
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ("Akimel O’odham") →	ethnicGroup
Pima ("Akimel O’odham") →	ethnicGroupAssociated
lower Gila River ("Akimel O’odham") →	hasCulturalSignificanceFor
Proto-Uto-Aztecan →	hasDescendant
Gila River Indian Community ("Akimel O’odham") →	hasEthnicGroup
Chihuahua →	hasIndigenousGroup
Pima people ("Akimel O’odham") →	nativeName
Maricopa →	sharesReservationWith