Yoeme language

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Yoeme language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Yaqui (Yoeme) people of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

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Yoeme language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American language
Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language
alternativeName Yaqui language
Yoeme yoem noki
associatedWithCulture Yaqui deer dance tradition
associatedWithReligion Yaqui syncretic Catholicism
belongsToBranch Southern Uto-Aztecan
closelyRelatedTo Mayo language
country Mexico
United States
ethnicGroup Yaqui
hasDomain home and community use
religious and ceremonial contexts
hasFeature postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verbal morphology
switch-reference markers (in some analyses)
hasGlottocode yaqu1251
hasISO639-3Code yaq
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts bilingual education programs
community-based classes
documentation projects
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish
hasMorphology polysynthetic tendencies
hasNumberOfSpeakers tens of thousands
hasPart distinct ceremonial register
everyday colloquial register
hasPhonology contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasTypology agglutinative language
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndonymFor Yaqui language
isPartOf Cahita languages
linked to: Cahitan languages
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
region Arizona, United States
linked to: Arizona

Sonora, Mexico
spokenBy Yaqui people
Yoeme people
spokenInCommunity Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Arizona
linked to: Pascua Yaqui Tribe

Yoeme communities in Phoenix, Arizona
Yoeme communities in Tucson, Arizona
status endangered language
threatened language
subfamily Cahita branch
usedIn oral storytelling
ritual songs
traditional Yaqui ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Yaqui language hasAlternativeName Yoeme language