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Name:
Cahuilla
Alternate Names:
Cahuilla (in French); Cahuilla (in Spanish)
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
14 (1994 L. Hinton). Ethnic population: 15 (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
30
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
15
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
chl
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Uto-Aztecan (Yuta-Nawan)
Parent Subgroup:
Cupan; Luisish Group (cupa)
Child Dialects:
Mountain Cahuilla (cup-mou)
Desert Cahuilla (cup-des)
Malki Cahuilla (cup-mal)
Brief Description:
"Cahuilla is a Uto-Aztecan language of the Takic subfamily, the heritage language of several small tribes in the inland area of southern California, including people at Morongo, Agua Caliente (Palm Springs), Cabazon, Augustine, Torres-Martinez, Santa Rosa, Cahuilla, Ramona, and Los Coyotes. Originally there were probably three dialects of Cahuilla: Mountain, Desert, and Malki. There are approximately 30 fluent first-language speakers of Cahuilla in a combined reservation population of about 2,300." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 11
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Cahuilla
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