Upland Yuman
E70780
Upland Yuman is a branch of the Yuman language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the upland regions of the southwestern United States.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Upland Yuman languages | 5 |
| Delta–California Yuman | 3 |
| Upland Yuman canonical | 3 |
| Upland Yuman subgroup | 2 |
| Core Yuman | 1 |
| Delta–California Yuman language | 1 |
| Delta–California branch of Yuman languages | 1 |
| Upland Yuman branch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T554308 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Upland Yuman Context triple: [Hualapai language, languageFamily, Upland Yuman]
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A.
Cahuilla language
The Cahuilla language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan Native American language traditionally spoken by the Cahuilla people of Southern California.
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B.
Plains Miwok
Plains Miwok are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting the lower Sacramento Valley and known for their distinct Miwokan language and cultural practices.
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C.
Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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D.
Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
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E.
Mojave language
The Mojave language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Mojave people along the lower Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Upland Yuman Target entity description: Upland Yuman is a branch of the Yuman language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the upland regions of the southwestern United States.
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A.
Cahuilla language
The Cahuilla language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan Native American language traditionally spoken by the Cahuilla people of Southern California.
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B.
Plains Miwok
Plains Miwok are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting the lower Sacramento Valley and known for their distinct Miwokan language and cultural practices.
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C.
Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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D.
Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
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E.
Mojave language
The Mojave language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Mojave people along the lower Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yuman language variety
ⓘ
branch of language family ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | well-established subgroup within Yuman ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Upland Yuman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Delta–California Yuman
River Yuman ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | limited descriptive grammars and dictionaries ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to English ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Upland Yuman branch
ⓘ
Upland Yuman ⓘ
surface form:
Upland Yuman subgroup
|
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex aspect marking
ⓘ
use of suffixes for person and number ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Havasupai–Hualapai language
ⓘ
surface form:
Havasupai language
Havasupai–Hualapai language ⓘ
surface form:
Havasupai–Walapai–Yavapai language
Walapai language ⓘ
surface form:
Hualapai language
Paipai language (sometimes classified) ⓘ Yavapai language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some member languages)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory (in some member languages) ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup | Havasupai–Walapai–Yavapai ⓘ |
| ISO639Status | no single ISO 639 code for the branch (only for individual languages) ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Yuman ⓘ |
| partOf | Yuman language family ⓘ |
| region | upland regions of the southwestern United States ⓘ |
| researchField | Yuman linguistics ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Havasupai people
ⓘ
Hualapai people ⓘ Yavapai people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Nevada ⓘ southwestern United States ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Hokan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Hokan languages (proposed)
Indigenous languages of North America ⓘ |
| subjectOf | comparative studies of Yuman languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ verb-final word order (tendency) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ceremonial contexts
ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (for modern documentation) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Upland Yuman Description of subject: Upland Yuman is a branch of the Yuman language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the upland regions of the southwestern United States.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hualapai language
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman branch
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman subgroup
this entity surface form:
Delta–California branch of Yuman languages
this entity surface form:
Delta–California Yuman
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman languages
this entity surface form:
Core Yuman
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman languages
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman subgroup
this entity surface form:
Delta–California Yuman
this entity surface form:
Delta–California Yuman language
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman languages
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman languages
this entity surface form:
Upland Yuman languages