Gosiute dialect

E1045772

The Gosiute dialect is a regional variety of the Shoshoni language traditionally spoken by the Goshute people of the Great Basin region in the western United States.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gosiute language 2
Gosiute dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Shoshoni language
alternateName Goshute dialect
closelyRelatedTo Western Shoshoni dialects
linked to: Shoshoni language
country United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Goshute
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between short and long vowels
use of glottal stop
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
languageBranch Shoshonean languages
linked to: Paiute languages
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
languageOf Goshute traditional oral literature
partOf Shoshoni language
region western United States
relatedTo Eastern Shoshoni dialect
linked to: Shoshoni language

Northern Shoshoni dialect
linked to: Shoshoni language
revitalizationEfforts community-based language programs
documentation by linguists
spokenBy Goshute people
spokenIn Nevada
Utah
subbranch Central Numic languages
linked to: Central Numic
subfamily Numic languages
traditionalRegion Great Basin
traditionalTerritory Deep Creek area
linked to: Deep Creek Valley

Skull Valley
usedFor ceremonial contexts
traditional storytelling
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Shoshoni language hasDialect Gosiute dialect
Shoshoni language closelyRelatedTo Gosiute language
linked to: Gosiute dialect
Great Basin linguistic area hasLanguage Gosiute language
linked to: Gosiute dialect