Editing Cahuilla (section)

==Language and name==
The [[Cahuilla language]] is in the [[Uto-Aztecan]] family. A 1990 census revealed 35 speakers in an ethnic population of 800. It is critically endangered, since most speakers are middle-aged or older. In their language, their [[Endonym|autonym]] is '''ʔívil̃uqaletem''', and the name of their language is '''ʔívil̃uʔat''' ([[Ivilyuat]]), but they also call themselves '''táxliswet''', meaning "person".<ref name=dictionary>{{Cite book|last1=Sieler|last2=Hioki|first1=Hansjakob|first2=Kojiro|title=Cahuilla Dictionary|year=1979|publisher=Malki Museum Press|location=Morango Indian Reservation, Banning, CA}}</ref> ''Cahuilla'' is an [[exonym]] applied to the group after mission secularization in the [[Ranchos of California]]. The word "Cahuilla" is probably from the Ivilyuat word ''kawiʔa'', meaning "master."<ref name=sdsu/>