Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A language phylum of North and Central America that includes Ute, Hopi, Nahuatl, and Shoshone.
- noun A member of a people speaking a Uto-Aztecan language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A linguistic family of North American languages, which, according to certain authors, includes the languages grouped by others under the three separate families Shoshonean, Piman, and Nahuatlecan. The relationship between these three groups is at least very distant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A certain
Native American language family including a large number of geographically distant languages such asHopi ,Nahuatl (Aztec ) andComanche . - adjective Of or pertaining to Uto-Aztecan.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a family of American Indian languages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some languages, such as Comanche, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by Native Americans in the United States, or Livonian, a Uralic language used in Latvia, today claim fewer than two hundred speakers.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Some languages, such as Comanche, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by Native Americans in the United States, or Livonian, a Uralic language used in Latvia, today claim fewer than two hundred speakers.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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And before the Spanish arrived, the Uto-Aztecan and Athapascan linguistic and cultural groups dominated this area, and there are still quite a few people who speak languages from those groups in the area.
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The Northern Uto-Aztecans are best known as the "Great Basin peoples," and the majority of them belong to the Numic subdivision of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages.
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Studying and understanding who speak these languages and where they live provides us with clues in determining the path of the Uto-Aztecan people through the Southwest U.S. and Mexico.
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In the final analysis, however, nearly all experts agree that the Uto-Aztecan trunk is a widespread language grouping, boasting a tremendous diversity of language families spread over a large area.
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On the other hand, if one observes the locations of the indigenous people who spoke the Uto-Aztecan languages, all of their lands lay to the northwest of the Valley of Mexico.
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SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) states that there are sixty-two existing Uto-Aztecan languages spread throughout the U.S.,
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The Aztecs and other Náhuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico all belong to the Uto-Aztecan Linguistic Group.
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The Náhuatl language, classified in the Nahuan group of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages, is unrelated to most Mesoamerican native languages.
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