Northern Paiute | |
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Spoken in | United States |
Region | Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho |
Native speakers | 500 to 1600 (date missing) |
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ISO 639-3 | pao |
Northern Paiute ( /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
- Liljeblad, Sven, Catherine S. Fowler, & Glenda Powell. 2012. The Northern Paiute-Bannock Dictionary, with an English-Northern Paiute-Bannock Finder List and a Northern Paiute-Bannock-English Finder List. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-030-8
- 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