Concept information
Preferred term
uteUte-Southern Paiute
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Colorado River Numic (also called Ute , Southern Paiute , and Ute-Southern Paiute or Southern Paiute-Ute), of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, is a dialect chain that stretches from southeastern California to Colorado. Individual dialects are Chemehuevi, which is in danger of extinction, Southern Paiute (of which San Juan and Kaibab are subdialects), and Ute (in northern and southern dialects). According to the Ethnologue, there were a little less than two thousand speakers of Colorado River in 1990, or ca. 40% out of an ethnic population of 5,000.
Entry terms
- Colorado River Numic language
ISO 639-3 code
- ute
Notation
- ute
In other languages
-
Idioma ute
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ute
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