Northern Paiute language

Northern Paiute
Spoken in	United States
Region	Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho
Native speakers	500 to 1600  (date missing)
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Northern Numic Western Numic Northern Paiute
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pao

Northern Paiute ( /ˈpaɪjuːt/; 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.

Morphology

Northern Paiute is an agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

Bibliography

• 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.

External links

• Northern Paiute page, with sound sample
• Ethnologue report on Northern Paiute
• Northern Paiute language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages