Ivilyuat language

E942842

The Ivilyuat language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Cahuilla people of Southern California.

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Ivilyuat language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
endangered language
alternateName Cahuilla language NERFINISHED
associatedWith Cahuilla cultural identity
Cahuilla traditional knowledge
closelyRelatedTo Cupeño language NERFINISHED
Gabrielino-Fernandeño (Tongva) language
Luiseño language NERFINISHED
Serrano language NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy linguist Hansjakob Seiler NERFINISHED
linguist Pamela Munro NERFINISHED
linguist William Bright
endangermentCause historical assimilation policies
language shift to English
ethnicGroup Cahuilla people NERFINISHED
glottocode cahu1264
hasDialects Desert Cahuilla dialect
Mountain Cahuilla dialect
Pass Cahuilla dialect
hasLinguisticArea California linguistic area NERFINISHED
hasResource grammars and dictionaries
ISO639-3 chl
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
morphology polysynthetic tendencies
nativeName Ivilyuat NERFINISHED
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
revitalizationEffort community language classes
documentation projects
spokenBy Cahuilla people NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
subfamily Northern Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED
subgroup Takic branch
traditionalRegion Colorado Desert region NERFINISHED
Inland Southern California NERFINISHED
San Gorgonio Pass area NERFINISHED
San Jacinto Mountains NERFINISHED
Southern California NERFINISHED
usedIn Cahuilla ceremonial contexts
traditional Cahuilla oral narratives
traditional Cahuilla songs
wordOrder relatively free word order
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Takic branch hasLanguage Ivilyuat language