Santa Ysabel Ipai

E1013820

Santa Ysabel Ipai is a specific dialect of the Ipai language traditionally spoken by the Ipai people in the Santa Ysabel region of Southern California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Santa Ysabel Ipai canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ipai dialect
dialect
associatedWithTribe Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel
belongsTo Santa Ysabel linguistic area
closelyRelatedTo Mesa Grande Ipai
San Pasqual Ipai
continent North America
country United States
ethnicGroup Ipai
hasAlternativeName Santa Ysabel Iipay
Santa Ysabel Kumeyaay (in some sources)
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology (as in Ipai)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (as in Ipai)
glottalized consonants (as in Ipai)
ISO639-3 none (covered under Ipai/Kumeyaay macrolanguage)
languageFamily Delta–California Yuman languages
Yuman languages
linguisticTypology head-marking language
partOf Kumeyaay–Ipai–Tipai complex
linked to: Ipai-Kumeyaay
regionType inland mountain dialect
revitalizationEfforts community-based language classes
documentation projects
spokenIn California
San Diego County
Santa Ysabel region
Southern California
United States
status endangered
severely endangered
subdivisionOf Ipai language
Kumeyaay–Ipai language continuum
linked to: Kumeyaay language
traditionalSpeakers Ipai people
traditionalTerritory Cuyamaca Mountains region
linked to: Cuyamaca Mountains

upper San Diego River watershed
usedFor ceremonial speech
everyday conversation (historically)
traditional narratives
wordOrder relatively free word order (as in Ipai)
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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

Ipai hasDialect Santa Ysabel Ipai