Eastern Mono

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Eastern Mono is a dialect of the Native American Mono language traditionally spoken by the Mono people of eastern California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Mono canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language variety
dialect
alternateName Eastern Mono dialect
Eastern Mono language variety
Owens Valley Paiute dialect
belongsTo Great Basin linguistic area
country United States
documentedBy linguists specializing in Uto-Aztecan languages
ethnicGroup Mono people
hasCulturalAssociation Mono oral history
Mono traditional ecological knowledge
hasDialectsOrVarieties Owens Valley Paiute
hasGlottocode easte2690
hasISO639-3Code mnr
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts community-based language classes
documentation projects
isDialectOf Mono (ISO 639-3: mnr)
isPartOf indigenous languages of California
languages of North America
languageBranch Numic languages
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
languageShiftTo English
languageSubbranch Western Numic languages
linguisticTypology Numic branch typology
morphologicalType agglutinative
mutualIntelligibility partially mutually intelligible with Western Mono
neighboringLanguages Northern Paiute
Southern Sierra Miwok
Tübatulabal
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory typical of Numic languages
region eastern California
relatedTo Western Mono
scriptType alphabet
spokenBy Mono communities in Owens Valley
Mono communities near Mono Lake
status endangered language variety
severely endangered
subdivisionOf Mono language
traditionalRegion Mono Lake region, California
linked to: Mono Lake watershed

Owens Valley, California
linked to: Owens Valley

Sierra Nevada, California
linked to: Sierra Nevada
usedIn ceremonial contexts
traditional narratives
traditional songs
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Mono language hasDialect Eastern Mono
Mono language hasDialect Eastern Mono
subject linked to: Mono