- Northern Paiute language
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Northern Paiute Spoken in United States Region Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho Native speakers 500 to 1600 (date missing) Language family Uto-Aztecan- Northern
- Numic
- Western Numic
- Northern Paiute
- Western Numic
- Numic
Language codes ISO 639-3 pao Northern Paiute (pronounced /ˈpaɪjuːt/; also known as Numu and Paviotso) is a Western Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, which according to Marianne Mithun had around 500 fluent speakers in 1994.[1] Ethnologue reported the number of speakers in 1999 as 1,631.[2] It is closely related to the Mono language.
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Morphology
Northern Paiute is an agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.
References
- ^ Mithun (1999:541)
- ^ "Report on Northern Paiute". Ethnologue. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pao. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
Bibliography
- Mithun, Marianne (1999). Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Snapp, Allen, John L. Anderson, and Joy Anderson. 1982. Northern Paiute. In Ronald W. Langacker, eds. Sketches in Uto-Aztecan grammar, III: Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 57(3) [The publication erroneously stated (56)3, but this has been amended in the PDF made available online by the publisher.] pp. 1–92.
External links
- Northern Paiute page, with sound sample
- Ethnologue report on Northern Paiute
- Northern Paiute language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Agglutinative languages
- Paiute
- Uto-Aztecan languages
- Languages of the United States
- Indigenous languages of California
- Indigenous languages of the Southwestern United States
- Indigenous languages of the North American Southwest
- Indigenous languages of the North American Great Basin
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
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