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. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
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
- ^ Mithun (1999:541)
- ^ Report on Northern Paiute. Ethnologue. Retrieved on March 29, 2007.
[edit] Bibliography
- Mithun, Marianne (1999). Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.