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Northern Paiute / ˈ p aɪ uː t /, [2] endonym Numu or nɨɨmɨ, [3] [4] also known as Paviotso, is a Western Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, which according to Marianne Mithun had around 500 fluent speakers in 1994. [5]
Colorado River Numic (also called Ute / ˈ juː t / YOOT, Southern Paiute / ˈ p aɪ juː t / PIE-yoot, Ute–Southern Paiute, or Ute-Chemehuevi / ˌ tʃ ɛ m ɪ ˈ w eɪ v i / CHEH-mih-WAY-vee), of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, is a dialect chain that stretches from southeastern California to Colorado. [2]
In the mid-1990s, an estimated 50 people spoke the Owens Valley Paiute language, also known as Eastern Mono. [1] Informal language classes exist and singers keep native language songs alive. [ 5 ] Linguist Sydney Lamb studied this language in the 1950s and proposed the name Paviotso, but that was not widely adopted.
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Paiute language may refer to any of the languages spoken by the Paiute people: Northern Paiute language, also known as Numu and Paviotso; Mono language (California), specifically the Western dialect, also known as Owens Valley Paiute; Colorado River Numic language, also known as Ute, Southern Paiute, Ute–Southern Paiute, or Ute-Chemehuevi
Paiute (/ ˈ p aɪ juː t /; also Piute) refers to three non-contiguous groups of Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.Although their languages are related within the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages, these three languages do not form a single subgroup and they are no more closely related to each than they are to the Central Numic languages (Timbisha, Shoshoni, and Comanche) which are ...
Ute (/ ˈ j uː t / YOOT) [2] is a dialect of the Colorado River Numic language, spoken by the Ute people.Speakers primarily live on three reservations: Uintah-Ouray (or Northern Ute) in northeastern Utah, Southern Ute in southwestern Colorado, and Ute Mountain in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. [3]
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