Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Pima Bajo (pia) Alternative Names  Lower Piman Family/Group  Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan Area  South America General Data  UA Southern branch, less than 1000 speakers, mountains of Chihuahua and Sonora Typological Information  phonology: syllable types (C)Vi(Vi)(C); morphology: strongly separative morphology; not highly inflectional Reduplication Form-Function  CV- (nominal plural, adjectival plural, verbal intensive (aspectual?)) CV-X-em (noun plural) Relationship Form-Function  one form - various functions Reduplication System  reduplicated syllable receives stress Diachrony  the most frequent reduplicated verbal form in the texts of Escalante / Estrada (1993) is hí~him where him means "to go" and is also a grammaticalized means for contin Repetitive Operations  seem to be very frequent in narrative contexts Forms  Select ValueCV   Functions  Select Valueintensification pluralization Patterns  Select Valuepartial partial with affixation Semantics  Select Valueintensity plurality   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — noun verb — verb   All Examples  ⊞ References    Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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