Northern Paiute language
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| Northern Paiute | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho | |
| Total speakers: | 500 to 1600 | |
| Language family: | Uto-Aztecan Northern Numic Western Numic Northern Paiute |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | pao | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Northern Paiute (Northern Paiute: Numu, 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,[1] although Ethnologue puts the number of speakers in 1999 as 1,631.[2] It is closely related to Mono.
[edit] References
- ^ Mithun (1999:541)
- ^ Report on Northern Paiute. Ethnologue. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
[edit] Bibliography
- Mithun, Marianne (1999). Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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