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Yuman–Cochimí languages

Language family of the western US–Mexico border region From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yuman–Cochimí languages
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The Yuman–Cochimí languages are a family of languages spoken in Baja California, northern Sonora, southern California, and western Arizona. Cochimí is no longer spoken as of the late 18th century, and most other Yuman languages are threatened.

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There are approximately a dozen Yuman languages. The dormant Cochimí, attested from the 18th century, was identified after the rest of the family had been established, and was found to be more divergent. The resulting family was therefore called Yuman–Cochimí, with Yuman being the extra-Cochimí languages.

  • Yuman
    • Cochimí (Northern Cochimí and Southern Cochimí may have been distinct languages)
    • Kiliwa
    • Core Yuman

Cochimí and Halchidhoma are now dormant. Cucapá is the Spanish name for the Cocopa. Diegueño is the Spanish name for Ipai–Kumeyaay–Tipai, now often referred to collectively as Kumeyaay. Upland Yuman consists of several mutually intelligible dialects spoken by the politically distinct Yavapai, Hualapai, and Havasupai.

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Urheimat

Mauricio Mixco of the University of Utah points to a relative lack of reconstructible Proto-Yuman terms for aquatic phenomena as evidence against a coastal, lacustrine, or riverine Urheimat.[1]

Reconstruction

Proto-Yuman reconstructions by Mixco (1978):[2]

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