Lipan Apache language

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Southern Athabaskan language endangered language indigenous language of North America

The Lipan Apache language is an endangered Southern Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Lipan Apache people of the southern Great Plains and northern Mexico.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Plains Apache language 5
Ndé Apache language 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southern Athabaskan language ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ
indigenous language of North America ⓘ
alternateName Lipan NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lipan Apache NERFINISHED ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Jicarilla Apache language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Navajo language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Western Apache language NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
country Mexico ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
documentationStatus poorly documented ⓘ
endangermentCause language shift to English ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ
ethnicGroup Lipan Apache NERFINISHED ⓘ
family Athabaskan language family ⓘ
grammaticalFeature classifiers in verb stems ⓘ
complex verb morphology ⓘ
pronominal prefixes on verbs ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
ejective consonants ⓘ
tone ⓘ
hasTypology polysynthetic ⓘ
verb-centered morphology ⓘ
ISO639-3Code apl ⓘ
languageBranch Apachean languages of the Southern Athabaskan group ⓘ
languageFamilyBranch Apachean ⓘ
linguisticArea North American Southwest NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOfCulturalHeritageOf Lipan Apache Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ
region Chihuahua NERFINISHED ⓘ
Coahuila NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nuevo León NERFINISHED ⓘ
Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
revitalizationEfforts community-based language preservation projects ⓘ
spokenBy Lipan Apache people NERFINISHED ⓘ
status moribund ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ
subfamily Southern Athabaskan NERFINISHED ⓘ
traditionalRegion northern Mexico ⓘ
southern Great Plains ⓘ
usedIn ceremonial contexts ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ
traditional songs ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (11)

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

Apache groups → areSpeakersOf → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plains Apache language
Mescalero language → closelyRelatedTo → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
Lipan language → hasAlternativeName → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
Lipan language → hasAlternativeName → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ndé Apache language
Southern Athabaskan → hasMajorLanguage → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
Southern Athabaskan → hasMajorLanguage → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plains Apache language
Apachean languages → hasMember → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
Apachean languages → hasMember → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plains Apache language
Southern Athabaskan → hasNotableLanguage → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
Southern Athabaskan → hasNotableLanguage → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plains Apache language
Kiowa Apache → traditionalLanguage → Lipan Apache language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plains Apache language