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6

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California Indian Languages
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

6

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Speakers

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Semi-speakers

12?

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Elder Speakers

6

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"While there are no longer any speakers of Pass Cahuilla, five native speakers of Mountain Cahuilla survived as of 2004, as did one fully fluent and perhaps a dozen nearly fluent speakers of Desert Cahuilla.

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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USA; California

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English

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

33.5404,-116.7436

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

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Ethnic Population

2,300

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Inland area of southern California

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

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33.5404,-116.7436

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

14

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

15

Non-monolingual speakers

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from L. Hinton (1994). Data for the ethnic population is from the 2000 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

USA;

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Location description

California; Southern California, San Gorgonio Pass and Mohave Desert areas.

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California; Southern California, San Gorgonio Pass and Mohave Desert areas.

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

35

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35 (2009 SIL), ethnic population 800 (Hinton 2007).

Year of info

2016

Location and Context

Countries

USA: California

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English

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~30

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Ethnic Population

2,300?

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

There are approximately 30 fluent first-language speakers of Cahuilla in a combined reservation population of about 2,300.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

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Location description

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.

Government support

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Other writing systems

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.

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

33.5,-116.25

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

15

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  1. Chem'ivillu' (Let's Speak Cahuilla)
    Sauvel, Katherine Siva and Pamela Munro. 1981. "Chem'ivillu' (Let's Speak Cahuilla)." American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
  2. Cahuilla Dictionary
    Seiler, Hansjakob and Kojiro Hioki. 1979. "Cahuilla Dictionary." Malki Museum Press.
  3. Non-distinct arguments in Uto-Aztecan
    Langacker, Ronald W. 1976. "Non-distinct Arguments in Uto-Aztecan." University of California Press.
  4. Morphologie des Verbs im Cahuilla
    Fuchs, Anna. 1970. "Morphologie Des Verbs Im Cahuilla." Mouton.
  5. Cahuilla Grammar
    Seiler, Hansjakob. 1997. "Cahuilla Grammar." Malki Museum Press.
  6. Cahuilla Grammar
    Seiler, Hansjakob. 1972. "Cahuilla Grammar." Malki Museum Press.
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  9. Die phonetischen Grundlagen der Vokalphoneme des Cahuilla
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  10. Cahuilla Grammar
    Seiler, Hansjakob. 1977. "Cahuilla Grammar." Malki Museum Press.
  11. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
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  12. The History of the Cahuilla Sound System
    Bright, William. 1965. "The History of the Cahuilla Sound System." In International Journal of American Linguistics, 31 , no. 3: 241-244.
  13. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  14. North America
    Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
  15. Endangered Languages of the United States
    Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell. 2010. "Endangered Languages of the United States." In Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing, edited by Christopher Moseley. 108-130. UNESCO.
  16. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
    Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  17. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
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  18. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
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