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Kumeyaay (Kumiai), also known as Central Diegueño, Kamia, and Campo, is the Native American language spoken by the Kumeyaay
people of southern San Diego and Imperial counties in California. Hinton suggested a conservative estimate of 50 surviving
Kumeyaay speakers. A more liberal estimate, supported by the results of the Census 2000, is 110 people in the US, including
15 persons under the age of 18. Kumeyaay belongs to the Yuman language family and to the Delta–California branch of that family.
Kumeyaay and its neighbors, Ipai to the north and Tipai to the south, were often considered to be dialects of a single Diegueño
language, but the current consensus among linguists seems to be that at least three distinct languages are present within
the dialect chain (e.g. , Langdon 1990). Confusingly, Kumeyaay is commonly used as a designation both for the central language
of this family and for the Ipai-Kumeyaay-Tipai people as a whole. Tipai is also commonly used as a collective designation
for speakers of both Kumeyaay and Tipai proper. Published documentation for the Kumeyaay language appears to be limited to
a few texts . |
Names (more)[en] Kumeyaay language |
Language type : Living
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