Cupan languages

Cupan
Geographic
distribution:		 southern California
Linguistic classification:

Uto-Aztecan

  • Northern
    • Cupan
Glottolog: cupa1239[1]

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The Takic languages. The non-grey languages are Cupan.

The Cupan languages is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that comprises the Cupeño language, Cahuilla, Luiseno, and perhaps Island Takic, all of California. The branch had long been considered to be part of the Takic subgroup, but there is doubt about the validity if Takic as a genetic unit, the similarities between the languages classed as Takic possibly being due primarily to borrowing.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cupan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Shaul, D. L. (2014). A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages. UNM Press.
  3. ↑ Hill, J. H. (2011). Subgrouping in Uto-Aztecan. Language Dynamics and Change, 1(2), 241-278.