Northern Paiute language
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| Northern Paiute | |
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| Native to | United States |
| Region | Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho |
| Native speakers | 500 to 1600 (date missing) |
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| ISO 639-3 | pao |
Northern Paiute /ˈpaɪuːt/,[1] 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.[2] Ethnologue reported the number of speakers in 1999 as 1,631.[3] It is closely related to the Mono language.
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Language revitalization[edit]
As of 2005, the Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon had formed a partnership to teach Numu and Kiksht in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation schools.[4]
Morphology[edit]
Northern Paiute is an agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.
References[edit]
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ Mithun (1999:541)
- ^ "Report on Northern Paiute". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
- ^ Joanne B. Mulcahy (2005). "Warm Springs: A Convergence of Cultures" (Oregon History Project). Retrieved 2013-02-26.
Bibliography[edit]
- Liljeblad, Sven, Catherine S. Fowler, & Glenda Powell. 2012. The Northern Paiute-Bannock Dictionary, with an English-Northern Paiute-Bannock Finder List and a Northern Paiute-Bannock-English Finder List. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-030-8
- Mithun, Marianne (1999). Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Snapp, Allen, John L. Anderson, and Joy Anderson. 1982. Northern Paiute. In Ronald W. Langacker, eds. Sketches in Uto-Aztecan grammar, III: Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 57(3) [The publication erroneously stated (56)3, but this has been amended in the PDF made available online by the publisher.] pp. 1–92.
- Thornes, Tim (2003). "A Northern Paiute Grammar with Texts". Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oregon-Eugene.
External links[edit]
- Northern Paiute page, with sound sample
- Ethnologue report on Northern Paiute
- Northern Paiute language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Northern Paiute Indian Language (Paviotso, Bannock)
- Northern Paiute resources at the Open Language Archives Community
- Northern Paiute Language Project, University of California, Berkeley
- World Atlas of Language Structures: Northern Paiute
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- Languages of the United States
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- Indigenous languages of the Southwestern United States
- Indigenous languages of the North American Southwest
- Indigenous languages of the North American Great Basin
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