Ute-Southern Paiute continuum

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The Ute-Southern Paiute continuum is a closely related group of Native American languages spoken by Ute and Southern Paiute peoples across parts of the western United States.

All labels observed (8)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
language continuum
closelyRelatedTo Comanche language
Shoshoni language
ethnicityAssociated Chemehuevi
Southern Paiute
Ute
linked to: Ute people
hasAlternativeName Ute-Southern Paiute language continuum
Ute–Southern Paiute
hasDialects Chemehuevi
Southern Paiute
Ute
linked to: Ute people
hasPart Chemehuevi language
Southern Paiute language
Ute language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
ejective consonants
isEndangered true
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
linguisticBranch Numic
linguisticSubbranch Southern Numic
partOf Uto-Aztecan language family
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
region Colorado Plateau
Great Basin
spokenBy Chemehuevi people
Southern Paiute people
Ute people
spokenIn Arizona
California
Colorado
Nevada
New Mexico
United States
Utah
status threatened
subclassOf Numic language
Southern Numic language
typologicalFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
usedIn ceremonial contexts
oral tradition
traditional storytelling
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Ute language hasDialect Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
subject linked to: ute
Ute language hasAlternativeName Ute-Southern Paiute (for the dialect continuum)
subject linked to: ute
linked to: Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
Ute language hasAlternativeName Eastern Numic Ute
subject linked to: ute
linked to: Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
Southern Paiute language hasAlternativeName Ute-Southern Paiute
linked to: Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
Southern Paiute language hasAlternativeName Southern Paiute-Ute
linked to: Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
Southern Paiute language hasAlternativeName Ute Southern Paiute language
linked to: Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
Uncompahgre Ute partOf Ute dialect continuum
linked to: Ute-Southern Paiute continuum
Ute-Southern Paiute continuum hasAlternativeName Ute–Southern Paiute
linked to: Ute-Southern Paiute continuum