Mojave language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Mojave Hamakhav |
||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | California and Arizona, USA | |
| Total speakers: | 204 (2000) | |
| Language family: | Yuman | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | mov | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Mojave is the native language of the Mojave people along the Colorado River in eastern California, northwestern Arizona, and southwestern Nevada. Approximately 70% of the speakers reside in Arizona, while approximately 30% reside in California.
Mojave belongs to the River Yuman branch of the Yuman-Cochimà linguistic family, together with Quechan and Maricopa.
[edit] References
- Hinton, Leanne. 1994. Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages. Heyday Books, Berkeley, California.
- Ethnologue entry for Mojave
- Rosetta Project entry for Mojave
 |
This Indigenous languages of the Americas-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
