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    Quechan or Kwtsaan (/kʷt͡sa:n/, Kwatsáan Iiyáa), also known as Yuma, is the native language of the Quechan people of southeastern California and southwestern...
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    The Quechan (Quechan: Kwatsáan 'those who descended'), or Yuma, are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado...
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    Ku'ahl) Cocopah (a.k.a. Cucapá; cf. Kahwan, Halyikwamai) River Yuman Quechan (a.k.a. Yuma) Maricopa (a.k.a. Pii-Paash; cf. also Halchidhoma) Mojave...
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    most commonly used language in the United States is English (specifically American English), which is the de facto national language. A March 2025 executive...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Arizona (category Articles containing Quechan-language text)
    activities as kwirahame (pronounced [ˌkʷiraxaˈme]). Among the neighboring Quechan, two-spirit individuals who were born male but performed women's activities...
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  • Korean boxer Yum Jung-ah (born in 1972), South Korean actress Quechan language, (ISO 639 language code "yum") Yugoslav dinar, former currency (between 1994...
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  • Kapillayuq (category Articles containing Quechan-language text)
    Kapillayuq (Quechua kapilla chapel (a borrowing from Spanish capilla), -yuq a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with a chapel", also spelled Capillayoc)...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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  • Quecha (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    and languages: Quechan, people who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation in Arizona and California Quechan language, language of the Quechan people...
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    [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...
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    2018-04-14. Quechan at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Yavapai at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Mojave language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) "Language Highlight...
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  • Quechan traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River area...
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    ih-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern...
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  • belongs to the River branch of the Yuman language family, together with Quechan and Maricopa. The Mojave language became endangered during the manifest destiny...
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    Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...
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    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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  • Patayan (category Quechan)
    harvesting by rivers and streams. The name "Patayan" comes from the Quechan language and means "old people". Alternative terms have been proposed for the...
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    Cocopah (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    the Cocopah besieged three Quechan villages holding them hostage. In retaliation, the Quechan-allied Mohave backed the Quechan and raided the Cocopah. The...
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    dates back to 7,000 years ago. In 3000 BC, people speaking the Yuman (Quechan) language began moving into the region from the Lower Colorado River Valley...
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    as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskimoan language family, the other being the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska...
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    Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest. It spread during the 19th...
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    Islands] or Finoʼ Chamoru [Guam] /ˈfinoʔ t͡sɑˈmoɾu/) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...
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  • Yuman music (category Quechan)
    California. They include Paipai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Walapai, Mohave, Quechan, Maricopa, Tipai-Ipai, Cocopa, and Kiliwa people. Folk songs in Yuma culture...
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    Inuit Sign Language (IUR; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ, romanized: Inuit Uukturausingit) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of the...
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    faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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    German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other...
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  • Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi...
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    The Nahuatl language in the United States is spoken primarily by Mexican immigrants from Indigenous communities and Chicanos who study and speak Nahuatl...
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    Kumeyaay (section Language)
    mid-1770s, largely siding with the Quechan-aligned alliance. However, increased tensions between the Spanish and the Quechan led to resumed conflict in 1781...
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