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| Yuman-Cochimí | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Colorado River basin and Baja California |
| Genetic classification: |
Yuman-Cochimí |
| Subdivisions: | |
 Pre-contact distribution of Yuman-Cochimí languages |
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Yuman-Cochimí is a family of languages spoken in Baja California and northern Sonora in Mexico and southern California and western Arizona in the United States.
Genetic relations
The Yuman-Cochimí family consists of about 10 separate languages, as well as various dialects:
I. Cochimí family
- 1. Cochimí (†) (may include separate Northern Cochimí and Southern Cochimí languages)
II. Yuman family
- A. Core Yuman
- i. Delta-California Yuman
- 1. Ipai language (a.k.a. 'Iipay, Northern Diegueño)
- 2. Kumeyaay language (a.k.a. Southern Diegueño, Campo, Kamia)
- 3. Tipai language (a.k.a. Southern Diegueño, Huerteño, Ku'ahl)
- 4. Cocopah language (a.k.a. Cucapá; cf. Kahwan, Halyikwamai)
- ii. River Yuman
- 5. Quechan language (a.k.a. Yuma)
- 6. Maricopa language (a.k.a. Pii-Paash; cf. also Halchidhoma)
- 7. Mohave language
- iii. Pai
- 8. Upland Yuman language (a.k.a. Northern Yuman)
- a. Yavapai dialects
- b. Hualapai dialect (a.k.a. Walapai)
- c. Havasupai dialect
- 9. Paipai language (a.k.a. Akwa'ala; possibly distinct from the Upland Yuman language only at the dialect level)
- 8. Upland Yuman language (a.k.a. Northern Yuman)
- i. Delta-California Yuman
- B. Kiliwa
- 10. Kiliwa language
Cochimí is now extinct. Cucapá is the Spanish name for the Cocopa. Diegueño is the Spanish name for the 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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Bibliography
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford University Press.
- Goddard, Ives. (1996). "Introduction". In Languages, edited by Ives Goddard, pp. 1-16. Handbook of North American Indians, William C. Sturtevant, general editor, Vol. 17. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Kendall, Martha B. (1983). "Yuman languages". In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 4-12. Handbook of North American Indians, William C. Sturtevant, general editor, Vol. 10. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Langdon, Margaret. (1990). "Diegueño: how many languages?" In Proceedings of the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Language Workshop, edited by James E. Redden, pp. 184-190. Occasional Papers in Linguistics No. 15. University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale.
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
- Mixco, Mauricio J. (2006). "The indigenous languages". In The Prehistory of Baja California: Advances in the Archaeology of the Forgotten Peninsula, edited by Don Laylander and Jerry D. Moore, pp. 24-41.
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