Pima

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Native American language Uto-Aztecan language indigenous language of North America

Pima is a Native American language of the Uto-Aztecan family traditionally spoken by the Akimel O’odham (Pima) people of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Pima canonical	13
Akimel O’odham	6
O’odham	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T637396 — 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: Pima
Context triple: [Uto-Aztecan, includesLanguage, Pima]

A. Maricopa
Maricopa are a Native American people traditionally living along the lower Gila and Colorado Rivers in what is now Arizona, known for their distinct Yuman language and cultural heritage.
B. Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
C. Mohave
The Mohave are a Native American people traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now Arizona, California, and Nevada, known for their riverine agriculture, distinctive tattoos, and rich oral traditions.
D. Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
E. Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
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: Pima
Target entity description: Pima is a Native American language of the Uto-Aztecan family traditionally spoken by the Akimel O’odham (Pima) people of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

A. Maricopa
Maricopa are a Native American people traditionally living along the lower Gila and Colorado Rivers in what is now Arizona, known for their distinct Yuman language and cultural heritage.
B. Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
C. Mohave
The Mohave are a Native American people traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now Arizona, California, and Nevada, known for their riverine agriculture, distinctive tattoos, and rich oral traditions.
D. Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
E. Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language ⓘ Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ indigenous language of North America ⓘ
alternateName	Akimel O’odham language ⓘ Pima language ⓘ
belongsToCulturalArea	Tohono O'odham ⓘ surface form: O’odham cultural area Southwestern cultural area of North America ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	O’odham language continuum ⓘ Tohono O'odham ⓘ surface form: Tohono O’odham
country	Mexico ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
ethnicGroupAssociated	Pima self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Akimel O’odham Tohono O'odham ⓘ surface form: O’odham peoples
governingTribalEntities	Gila River Indian Community ⓘ Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ⓘ
hasGlottocode	pima1248 ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code	pim ⓘ
hasLinguisticDocumentation	dictionaries ⓘ grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom	English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	noun incorporation (limited) ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ glottal stop phoneme ⓘ
historicalContactWith	English ⓘ surface form: English language Spanish language ⓘ
languageBranch	O’odham group ⓘ
languageFamily	Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
languageRevitalization	community-based programs ⓘ
languageStatus	endangered language ⓘ
region	Northern Mexico ⓘ southwestern United States ⓘ surface form: Southwestern United States
spokenBy	Pima people ⓘ surface form: Akimel O’odham people Pima people ⓘ
subfamily	Southern Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
taughtIn	tribal schools (limited) ⓘ
traditionalTerritory	Gila River region ⓘ Salt River ⓘ surface form: Salt River region
typologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ verb-final tendencies ⓘ
usedIn	ceremonial contexts ⓘ community life of Akimel O’odham ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ
wordOrder	flexible word order ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (20)

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

Uto-Aztecan → includesLanguage → Pima ⓘ

this entity surface form: O’odham

Chihuahua → hasIndigenousGroup → Pima ⓘ

Sonora → containsIndigenousPeople → Pima ⓘ

lower Gila River → hasCulturalSignificanceFor → Pima ⓘ