KUMEYAAY LANGUAGE

Did You Know?

"Sycuan's language is called Kumeyaay, of which there is a southern dialect (Iipay) and a northern dialect (Tiipay).

"The Kumeyaay language is a Hokan language of the Yuman stock, which also includes Cocopah, Maricopa, Quechan, Mohave, Pai Pai, Yavapai, Havasupai, and Hualapai...".

- sycuan.com

KUMEYAAY LANGUAGE WEB SITE
Kumeyaay Linguistics LEARN how to speak Kumeyaay language online

Kumeyaay STORIES STORYTELLING
Featuring the Kumeyaay stories from the Brown-Curo family of Barona and Viejas

Kumeyaay STORY TRANSLATED into English
"The Rabblt Versus the Rattlesnake"

Kumeyaay MOVIES On-line Movie Theater
Kumeyaay singing, Kumeyaay Dancing, Kumeyaay Native Speakers, California Indian Language Culture audio recordings, Pai-Pai language Spanish translations into English language movie film videos online

More original KUMEYAAY LANGUAGE AUDIO RECORDINGS of Native Kumeyaay speakers with English translations:

Kumeyaay Elder Jane Dumas, Jamul band, addresses a crowd in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, 2005. Jane Dumas opens her remarks in Kumeyaay, Spanish and translates her Kumeyaay speech into English language.

Kumeyaay Native speaker Stan Rodriguez, a Kumeyaay bird singer from the Santa Ysabel reservation, speaks in Kumeyaay and translates it into English, plays a can rattle and sings Ipai and Diegueño Yuman songs.

Yuman language singers, Sycuan Indian Reservation, Kumeyaay Community College (formerly DQ University at Sycuan), are pictured here in this photograph around a burning campfire learning and singing ageless traditional "bird songs" of their indigenous ancestors.

HOKAN LANGUAGE FAMILY GROUP:

The HOKAN LANGUAGES are spoken in the southwestern and west coast of the United States of America, and in northwestern Mexico (Baja California and Sonora).

The Hokan language family includes:

Delta-Californian Languages:

Cocopa
Kumiai (Diegueno)

River Yuman Languages:

Maricopa
Mohave
Quechan (Yuma)

Upland Yuman Languages:

Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
Paipai (Akwa'ala)

Cochimi

Kiliwa

Esselen

Karok-Shasta Languages:

Karok
Palaihninan Languages:

Achumawi
Atsugewi

Shasta

Chimariko

Pomo Languages:

Western Pomo Languages:

Central Pomo
Kashaya
Northern Pomo
Southern Pomo

Eastern Pomo
Southeastern Pomo
Northeastern Pomo

Salinan-Seri Languages:

Chumash
Salinan
Seri

Tequistlatecan Languages:

Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca
Sierra Chontal of Oaxaca

Washod

-source and specific information: native-languages.org

YUMAN LANGUAGE LINKS RESOURCES

• Yuman Kumeyaay Bird Songs Bird Singing singbird.com
• The Native Languages of San Diego County kumeyaay.com
• Kumeyaay Bird Singing, Bird Dancing PHOTOs and MOVIES kumeyaay.info

KUMEYAAY HISTORICAL CULTURAL RESEARCH kumeyaay.info
Museum Photos Pictures Artifacts Collections Archives, Ethnography, Anthropology, Geography

• Teaching Indigenous Languages jan.ucc.nau.edu