Cupan languages

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The Cupan languages are a subgroup of Uto-Aztecan Indigenous languages once spoken in Southern California, known for including languages such as Cupeño and Cahuilla.

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Label Occurrences
Cupan languages canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Uto-Aztecan languages
language subgroup
alternativeName Takic–Cupan subgroup (in some classifications)
associatedWithPeople Cahuilla people NERFINISHED
Cupeño people NERFINISHED
Juaneño people NERFINISHED
Luiseño people NERFINISHED
classificationStatus well-attested subgroup within Uto-Aztecan linguistics
culturalContext Native Californian cultures
documentation described in 20th-century linguistic fieldwork
geographicDistribution mountain and desert areas of Southern California
historicalChange declined rapidly after European-American colonization
historicalPeriod pre-contact era in California
includesLanguage Cahuilla language NERFINISHED
Cupeño language NERFINISHED
Juaneño language
Luiseño language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family NERFINISHED
region Inland Southern California NERFINISHED
relatedTo Gabrielino-Fernandeño (Tongva) language NERFINISHED
Serrano language NERFINISHED
Takic languages NERFINISHED
revitalization subject of language revitalization efforts for some member languages
spokenBy Indigenous peoples of California NERFINISHED
spokenIn Southern California NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
status mostly extinct
severely endangered
subgroupOf Northern Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED
Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
rich verbal morphology
verb-final tendencies in some constructions
writingSystem Latin script (in modern documentation)

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Takic branch hasSubgroup Cupan languages