Tiipai language
Tiipai is a Native American language spoken by a number of Kumeyaay tribes in northern Baja California and southern San Diego County, California. It is also known as Southern Diegueño. Hinton provided a "conservative estimate" of 200 Tipai speakers in the early 1990s; the number of speakers has declined steadily since that time.
Tipai belongs to the Yuman language family and to the Delta–California branch of that family. In the past, Tipai and its neighbors to the north, Kumeyaay and Ipai, have been considered dialects of a single Diegueño language, but linguists now recognize that they represent at least three distinct languages. Tipai itself is not a uniform speech variety, and some suggest that it might be possible to recognize multiple languages within Tipai.
Published documentation of the Tipai language includes a descriptive grammar, a comparative dictionary, a word list, and texts.Phonology
Consonants
Vowels