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Preferred term

paoNorthern Paiute  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Northern Paiute (; also known as Numu and Paviotso) is a Western Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, which according to Marianne Mithun had around 500 fluent speakers in 1994. Ethnologue reported the number of speakers in 1999 as 1,631. It is closely related to the Mono language.

Entry terms

  • Northern Paiute language
  • Paiute, Northern

ISO 639-3 code

  • pao

Notation

  • pao

In other languages

  • Paiute du Nord

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/pao

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