Takic

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Takic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in Southern California.

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Label Occurrences
Takic canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Uto-Aztecan languages
language subgroup
country United States
culturalAssociation Cahuilla people
Cupeño people
Kitanemuk people NERFINISHED
Luiseño people
Serrano people
Tataviam people
Tongva (Gabrielino) people
linked to: Tongva people
documentation grammars and wordlists compiled by field linguists
endangermentStatus severely endangered as a group
fieldOfStudy comparative linguistics
historical linguistics
hasAlternativeName Takic branch
Takic languages
hasFeature complex verbal morphology
rich system of derivational affixes
use of suffixes for grammatical relations
vowel length distinctions in many member languages
hasInfluenceFrom Spanish (loanwords in many member languages)
hasMember Cahuilla language
Cupeno language
Gabrielino-Fernandeño (Tongva) language
Juaneño language
linked to: Luiseño language

Kitanemuk language
Luiseño language
Serrano language
Tataviam language
hasMemberStatus many member languages extinct or nearly extinct
hasMorphologicalFeature use of pronominal clitics in some languages
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between plain and glottalized consonants in some languages
hasRevitalizationEfforts community-based language programs for several Takic languages
hasSyntacticFeature use of switch-reference in some member languages
historicalStatus historically spoken
isSubgroupOf Northern Uto-Aztecan (in some classifications)
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
linguisticTypology agglutinative language group
neighboringLanguageGroups Chumashan languages
Yuman languages
partOf Uto-Aztecan language family
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
region Southern California
spokenBy Indigenous peoples of Southern California
studiedBy linguists specializing in Uto-Aztecan
subclassOf Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
timeDepth attested since at least the 19th century in written records
usedIn traditional oral literature of Southern California tribes
wordOrder typically SOV or flexible
writingSystem primarily written using Latin script in modern documentation

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