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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 ...
Zuni language; Tanoan family; Keresan language; Hopi language; Navajo language; The languages belong to five different families: Zuni, Tanoan, Keresan, Uto-Aztecan (Hopi), and Athabaskan (Navajo, from the Apachean subfamily). Zuni is a language isolate. Navajo is only a marginal member of the Sprachbund and does not share all its linguistic ...
The Nahuan (Aztecan) branch of Uto-Aztecan is widely accepted as having two divisions: General Aztec and Pochutec. [26] General Aztec encompasses the Nahuatl and Pipil languages. [cn 3] Pochutec is a scantily attested language, which became extinct in the 20th century, [27] [28] and which Campbell and Langacker classify as being outside general ...
Piman (or Tepiman) refers to a group of languages within the Uto-Aztecan family that are spoken by ethnic groups (including the Pima) spanning from Arizona in the north to Durango, Mexico in the south. The Piman languages are as follows (Campbell 1997): 1. O'odham (also known as Pima language, Papago language) 2.
This sprachbund is defined by an array of syntactic, lexical and phonological traits as well as a number of ethnolinguistic traits found in the languages of Mesoamerica, which belong to a number of language families, such as Uto-Aztecan, Mayan, Totonacan, Oto-Manguean and Mixe–Zoque languages as well as some language isolates and unclassified ...
Tepahue: possibly a Taracahitic language. Closely related languages or dialects include Macoyahui, Conicari, and Baciroa. Tepanec: an Aztecan language. Teul (Teul-Chichimeca): a Pimic language, possibly of the Tepecano subgroup. Toboso: grouped with Concho. Topia: perhaps the same as Xixime (Jijime). Topiame: possibly a Taracahitic language.
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 ...
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