Ivilyuat language

E942842

The Ivilyuat language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Cahuilla people of Southern California.

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Ivilyuat language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
endangered language
alternateName Cahuilla language
associatedWith Cahuilla cultural identity
Cahuilla traditional knowledge
closelyRelatedTo Cupeño language
Gabrielino-Fernandeño (Tongva) language
Luiseño language
Serrano language
country United States
documentedBy linguist Hansjakob Seiler
linguist Pamela Munro
linguist William Bright
endangermentCause historical assimilation policies
language shift to English
ethnicGroup Cahuilla people
glottocode cahu1264
hasDialects Desert Cahuilla dialect
Mountain Cahuilla dialect
Pass Cahuilla dialect
hasLinguisticArea California linguistic area
hasResource grammars and dictionaries
ISO639-3 chl
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
morphology polysynthetic tendencies
nativeName Ivilyuat
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
revitalizationEffort community language classes
documentation projects
spokenBy Cahuilla people
status severely endangered
subfamily Northern Uto-Aztecan
subgroup Takic branch
traditionalRegion Colorado Desert region
linked to: Colorado Desert

Inland Southern California
linked to: Southern California

San Gorgonio Pass area
San Jacinto Mountains
Southern California
usedIn Cahuilla ceremonial contexts
traditional Cahuilla oral narratives
traditional Cahuilla songs
wordOrder relatively free word order
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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

Takic branch hasLanguage Ivilyuat language