Yuman

E74287

Yuman is a Native American language family of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, encompassing several related indigenous languages and peoples.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yuman canonical 14

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language family
language family
ethnicGroup Cocopa people
Havasupai people
Hualapai people
Kiliwa people
Kumeyaay people
Maricopa people
Mohave people
linked to: Mojave people

Paipai people
Quechan people
Yavapai people
glottologCode yuma1252
hasFeature complex aspect system
limited nominal inflection
rich verbal morphology
hasLanguage Cocopa
linked to: Cocopa people

Havasupai–Hualapai
linked to: Hualapai people

Ipai
Kiliwa
Kumeyaay
linked to: Kumeyaay people

Maricopa
Mohave
Paipai
Quechan
linked to: Quechan people

Tipai
Yavapai
hasSubfamily Core Yuman
Delta–California Yuman
River Yuman
languageFamilyBranchOf proposed Hokan macrofamily
languageFamilyOf Yuman peoples
region Arizona
Baja California
California
Sonora
spokenIn Mexico
Northwestern Mexico
Southwestern United States
United States
status endangered
studiedBy linguist Edward Sapir
linked to: Edward Sapir

linguist Margaret Langdon
subclassOf Hokan languages hypothesis
linked to: Hokan (proposed)
typology agglutinative
head-marking
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin script

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