Tohono O'odham

M. Miyashita

doi:10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/05047-1

Tohono O'odham

M. Miyashita

Anthropology

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The article presents an overview of Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago), a Uto-Aztecan language, examining phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Tohono O'odham has been documented throughout the 20th century. Several dialects and speech styles are recognized. The sound inventory is relatively simple and contains some phonetic features not present in English. Tohono O'odham is a nonconfigurational language. A nominal classification exists between alienable and inalienable nouns, along with possessive noun phrases. The Tohono O'odham Nation uses an official writing system developed in 1970s.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
Publisher	Elsevier Ltd
Pages	735-737
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	9780080448541
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/05047-1
State	Published - 2006

Keywords

Alienable
Dialects
Distributive
Extra-short vowel
Free word order
Indigenous
Loan words
Nonconfigurational
O'odham
Orthography
Papago
Reduplication
Truncation
Uto-Aztecan
Variations

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