Cupeño language

Cupeño language
Cupeño
Spoken in Southern California, USA
Extinct 1987
Language family
Uto-Aztecan
  • Northern
    • Takic
      • Cupan
        • Cahuilla–Cupeno
          • Cupeño
Writing system Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cup
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Cupeño is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language, formerly spoken by the Cupeño people of Southern California, USA, who now speak English. Roscinda Nolasquez was the last native speaker of Cupeño.[1]

Contents

Morphology

Cupeño is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

Bilabial Coronal Palatal or
Postalveolar		 Plain Labialized Glottal
Laminal Apical Velar Uvular Velar Uvular
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive and
Affricate		 p t (t)ʃ k q kʷ (qʷ) ʔ
Fricative Voiceless s ʂ x ~ χ xʷ h
Voiced β ð ɣ
Trill r
Approximant central j w
lateral l ʎ

/kʷ/ is realized as [qʷ] before unstressed /a/ or /e/. [x] and [χ] appear to be in free variation.

/tʃ/ is realized as [ʃ] in syllable codas.

See also

  • Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

References

  1. ^ Hill, Jane H. (2005-10-18). A Grammar of Cupeño. UC Publications in Linguistics. 136. Univ of California Press. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mz6t67j. 

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