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Name: Laimón Type: Dialect Alternate Names: Northern Cochimí; Southern Cochimí; Cadegomeño; Cochimi; Cochimtee; Cochetimi; Cochima; Cadegomo; Didiu; Laimon; Laymonem; Laymon-Cochimi; San Javier; San Xavier; San Joaquín; San Francesco Saverio Mission; San Francisco Xavier de Viggé-Biaundo Mission; Cochimí; Joaquín; San; San Francisco Xavier de; Viggé-Biaundo Mission; Peninsula Yuman; Cadegomeno; Laymon Once Spoken in: Mexico Code: coj Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Yuman-Cochimi (Cochimi-Yuman) Parent Dialect: Laimón; Northern Cochimí; Southern Cochimí; Cadegomeño; Cochimi; Cochimtee; Cochetimi; Cochima; Cadegomo; Didiu; Laimon; Laymonem; Laymon-Cochimi; San Javier; San Xavier; San Joaquín; San Francesco Saverio Mission; San Francisco Xavier de Viggé-Biaundo Mission; Cochimí; Joaquín; San; San Francisco Xavier de; Viggé-Biaundo Mission; Peninsula Yuman; Cadegomeno; Laymon (coj) Brief Description: "Cochimí was a chain of dialects that were formerly spoken in the central portion of the peninsula of Baja California, from about 150 miles south of the US border to about 200 miles north of Cabo San Lucas. Cochimí is a branch of the Cochimí-Yuman family, coordinate with the Yuman languages. Two dialect clusters or emergent languages can be identified: Northern Cochimí, spoken by nomadic bands in the extremely arid Central Desert and later associated with the missions at Santa María Cabujacamang, Santa Gertrudis, and San Francisco de Borja (Borjeño); and Southern Cochimí, spoken by more settled groups at the oases and in the highlands south of the 28th parallel and best attested from the missions of San Javier Viggé, San José Comondú, and San Ignacio Kadakaaman (Cadegomeño). Laimón was apparently a variety of Cochimí, though its identity is sometimes disputed. Monquí (Monquí-Didiú) is Cochimí and sometimes with Guaicurian, leaving its status unclear. Most of the scanty documentation of Cochimí comes from the Jesuit missions (1697-1767), although there are some nineteenth century vocabularies. As late as 1925 Harrington was able to find a person who remembered a few Northern Cochimí forms, but the language was essentially extinct by that time." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 13

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed