Karuk

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Karuk

Summary

Karuk is a natural language[1]. Karuk draws 33 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #287 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Karuk is in the country of United States[3].
  • Karuk's instance of is recorded as natural language[4].
  • Karuk's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Karuk is a type of Indigenous languages of the Americas[6].
  • Karuk is a type of Hokan[7].
  • Karuk's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Karuk language[8].
  • Karuk's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+12'}[9].
  • Karuk's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'mis', 'text': 'Araráhih'}[10].
  • Karuk's UNESCO language status is recorded as 4 severely endangered[11].
  • Karuk's indigenous to is recorded as California[12].
  • Karuk's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KYH[13].
  • Karuk's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 8b Nearly Extinct[14].
  • Karuk's linguistic typology is recorded as polysynthetic language[15].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include natural language[4] and modern language[5]. Recorded subclass of include Indigenous languages of the Americas[6] and Hokan[7].

Why It Matters

Karuk draws 33 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #287 of 734).[2] Karuk has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Karuk is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . unesco.org. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue language status 8b Nearly Extinct
    Country
    Indigenous to California
    Instance of natural language, modern language
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987013157613905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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