L'idioma kumiai —conoixiu tamién como dieguenyo d'o Sud, campo u kumeeyaay— ye una luenga indichena perteneixient a la familia lingüistica yumano-cochimí. Ye parlada por menos de cincocientas personas en os estaus de California (Estaus Unius) y Baixa California (Mexico). O nombre nativo d'ista luenga ye kamia.
O kumiai fa parti d'o grupo de luengas yumanas d'o Delta y California. En muitas vegadas, as luengas d'os pueblos vecinos a os kumiai, como lo dieguenyo d’o norte y l'idioma cochimí mti'pa son presos como una mesma luenga, d'a que os idiomas nombraus son simplament dialectos.Langdon, Margaret. 1990. "Diegueño: how many languages?" In Proceedings of the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop, edited by James E. Redden, pp. 184-190. University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale.
Referencias
Bibliografía Leanne Hinton. 1994. Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages. Heyday Books, Berkeley, California. Mithun, Marianne. 1999. The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge University Press. Erlandson, Jon M., Torben C. Rick, Terry L. Jones, and Judith F. Porcasi. "One If by Land, Two If by Sea: Who Were the First Californians?" California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Eds. Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press, 2010. 53-62. ISBN 978-0759119604. Kroeber, A. L. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, DC, 1925. Luomala, Katharine. "Tipai-Ipai." Handbook of North American Indians. Volume ed. Robert F. Heizer. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. 592-609. . Pritzker, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0195138771. Shipek, Florence C. "History of Southern California Mission Indians." Handbook of North American Indians. Volume ed, Heizer, Robert F. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. 610-618. . Shipek, Florence C. "The Impact of Europeans upon Kumeyaay Culture." The Impact of European Exploration and Settlement on Location Native Americans. Ed. Raymond Starr. San Diego: Cabrillo Historical Association, 1986: 13-25. Smith, Kalim H. 2005. "Language Ideology and Hegemony in the Kumeyaay Nation: Returning the Linguistic Gaze". Master's Thesis, University of California, San Diego.
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