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Tipai or Tiipay is a Native American language spoken by a number of Kumeyaay (Kumiai) tribes in northern Baja California and southern San Diego County California. It is also known as Southern Diegueño. Hinton (1994:28) 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.