Uto-Aztecan

E16654

Native American language family language family

Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Uto-Aztecan languages	203
Uto-Aztecan language family	75
Uto-Aztecan canonical	68
Uto-Aztecan peoples	11
Aztecan	1
Classical Nahuatl	1
Uto-Aztecan cultural area	1
Uto-Aztecan language area	1
Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T138751 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Uto-Aztecan
Context triple: [Chemehuevi people, linguisticFamily, Uto-Aztecan]

A. Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
B. Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
C. Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
D. Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages are a large family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Plains, including well-known languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, and Wampanoag.
E. Eskimo–Aleut languages
Eskimo–Aleut languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken across the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia, known for their polysynthetic structure and complex morphology.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Uto-Aztecan
Target entity description: Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.

A. Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
B. Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
C. Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
D. Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages are a large family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Plains, including well-known languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, and Wampanoag.
E. Eskimo–Aleut languages
Eskimo–Aleut languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken across the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia, known for their polysynthetic structure and complex morphology.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language family ⓘ language family ⓘ
alternativeName	Uto-Aztecan ⓘ surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family Uto-Aztecan ⓘ surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
continent	North America ⓘ
familyColor	Uto-Aztecan self-link ⓘ
hasSubfamily	Aztecan ⓘ Corachol ⓘ Northern Uto-Aztecan ⓘ Numic ⓘ Southern Uto-Aztecan ⓘ Takic ⓘ Taracahitic ⓘ Rarámuri ⓘ surface form: Tepiman
includesLanguage	Cahuilla people ⓘ surface form: Cahuilla Chemehuevi ⓘ Nahuan languages ⓘ surface form: Classical Nahuatl Comanche ⓘ Cora ⓘ Gabrielino-Fernandeño ⓘ Guarijío ⓘ Hopi people ⓘ surface form: Hopi Huichol ⓘ Luiseño people ⓘ surface form: Luiseño Nahuan languages ⓘ surface form: Nahuatl Paiute ⓘ surface form: Northern Paiute Ute people ⓘ surface form: Northern Ute Pima ⓘ surface form: O’odham Paiute ⓘ Pima ⓘ Pochutec ⓘ Serrano ⓘ Shoshoni ⓘ Southern Paiute people ⓘ surface form: Southern Paiute Ute people ⓘ surface form: Southern Ute Tarahumara ⓘ Tepehuán ⓘ Ute people ⓘ surface form: Ute
likelyHomeland	southwestern United States ⓘ surface form: American Southwest Northern Mexico ⓘ
majorLanguage	Hopi people ⓘ surface form: Hopi Nahuan languages ⓘ surface form: Nahuatl Ute people ⓘ surface form: Ute
protoLanguage	Proto-Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
region	Mexico ⓘ western United States ⓘ surface form: Western United States
usedBy	indigenous peoples of Mexico ⓘ indigenous peoples of the Western United States ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ