Kumiai

E81836

Kumiai is an indigenous Yuman language spoken by the Kumeyaay people in the border region of southern California and northern Baja California.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kumiai canonical 2
Central Kumiai 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Yuman language
indigenous language
associatedWith Kumeyaay reservations in California
Kumiai communities in Baja California
closelyRelatedTo Cocopah language
Kiliwa language
Paipai language
Quechan language
country Mexico
United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Kumeyaay
linked to: Kumeyaay people
hasAlternativeName Diegueño
Ipai–Tipai
linked to: Ipai-Tipai

Kumeyaay language
Tipai
hasDialect Central Kumiai
linked to: Kumiai

Ipai
Tipai
hasGlottocode kumi1248
hasGlottologName Kumiai
hasGrammaticalFeature agglutinative morphology
complex verb morphology
verb-final word order tendency
hasLanguageFamily Hokan (proposed)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
ISO639-3Code kji
languageOf Kumeyaay Nation
linked to: Kumeyaay people
languageStatus threatened
partOf Yuman language family
region border region of southern California and northern Baja California
spokenBy Kumeyaay people
spokenIn Baja California state
linked to: Baja California

Mexico
San Diego County
United States
northern Baja California
southern California
linked to: Southern California
subclassOf Cochimí–Yuman languages
Yuman–Cochimí language family
subjectOf language revitalization programs
linguistic documentation projects
usedFor oral tradition
songs
storytelling
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Kumiai hasDialect Central Kumiai
linked to: Kumiai
Kumiai hasGlottologName Kumiai