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The Uto-Aztecan [a] languages [b] are a family of native American languages, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The name of the language family reflects the common ancestry of the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan) of ...
Ute (/ ˈ j uː t /) are an Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico. [5] [3] Historically, their territory also included parts of Wyoming, eastern Nevada, and Arizona. Their Ute dialect is a Colorado River Numic language, part of the Uto-Aztecan language family [6]
The Shoshoni language is spoken by approximately 1,000 people today. [1] It belongs to the Central Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Speakers are scattered from central Nevada to central Wyoming. [1]
Indigenous peoples of Mexico and the United States who speak or historically spoke Uto-Aztecan languages. Subcategories This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total.
A map showing the approximate locations of Yaqui people Yaqui settlements. The Yaqui language, or Yoem Noki, belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language family. [2] Yaqui speak a Cahitan language, a group of about 10 mutually intelligible languages formerly spoken in much of the states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
Numic is the northernmost branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. It includes seven languages spoken by Native American peoples traditionally living in the Great Basin, Colorado River basin, Snake River basin, and southern Great Plains.
Proto-Uto-Aztecan is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Uto-Aztecan languages.Authorities on the history of the language group have usually placed the Proto-Uto-Aztecan homeland in the border region between the United States and Mexico, namely the upland regions of Arizona and New Mexico and the adjacent areas of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, roughly corresponding to the ...
Shoshoni is the northernmost member of the large Uto-Aztecan language family, which includes nearly sixty living languages, spoken in the Western United States down through Mexico and into El Salvador. [7] Shoshoni belongs to the Numic subbranch of Uto-Aztecan. [6] The word Numic comes from the cognate word in all Numic languages for "person".