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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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| 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.
References
- ^ Mithun (1999:541)
- ^ "Report on Northern Paiute". Ethnologue. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
Bibliography
- Mithun, Marianne (1999). Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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