Kumeyaay
[aka Campo, Comeya, Cuchimí, Kamia, Kamiai, Kamiyahi, Kamiyai, Ki-Miai, ...]Classification: Cochimi-Yuman
·endangered
Classification: Cochimi-Yuman
·endangered
Campo, Comeya, Cuchimí, Kamia, Kamiai, Kamiyahi, Kamiyai, Ki-Miai, Ko'al, Ku'ahl, Kumeyaai, Kumiai, Kumia, Kw'aal, Quemayá, Tipái, Tipai', Tipéi |
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Cochimi-Yuman, Yuman |
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Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
Mexico: 220 (2000 INALI).
USA: 150 (Golla 2007). 40–50 fluent speakers of Kumeyaay, 100 speakers of Tipai, a few elderly people speak Ipai.
Mexico: Baja California state: Cañon de los Encinos, Ja’áa, La Huerta de los Indios, Rancho Nejí, San Antonio Nécua, and San José de la Zorra; mountains southeast of Tecate, 60 km east of Ensenada.
US: California: east of San Diego and some in Imperial Valley.
Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
An emergent language in the Diegueño dialect complex. (In recent years the entire Diegueño dialect complex has also been referred to as Kumeyaay, creating some confusion.)
There are between 40 and 50 fluent speakers.
English
Spanish
Spoken in several locations in central and southern San Diego County, the most important of these being Campo.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
220 in Mexico (Cuarón and Lastra 1991).
Baja California, Rancho Nejí, mountains southeast of Tecate, 60 km east of Ensenada in La Huerta de los Indios, San Antonio Nécua, San José de la Zorra, Cañon de los Encinos, and Ja’áa.