Northern Paiute language

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Northern Paiute
Spoken in: United States 
Region: Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho
Total speakers: 500 to 1600
Language family: Uto-Aztecan
 Northern
  Numic
   Western Numic
    Northern Paiute
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: pao

Northern Paiute (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

  1. ^ Mithun (1999:541)
  2. ^ Report on Northern Paiute. Ethnologue. Retrieved on March 29, 2007.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Mithun, Marianne (1999). Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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