Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan

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The Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan is a subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken primarily in the Great Basin region of the western United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language branch
subgroup of Uto-Aztecan languages
associatedWithPeople Chemehuevi people NERFINISHED
Comanche
surface form: Comanche people

Numic peoples
surface form: Mono people (Numic)

Northern Paiute
surface form: Northern Paiute people

Shoshoni
surface form: Shoshone people

Southern Paiute people
Ute people
closelyRelatedTo Hopi language
Takic branch of Uto-Aztecan
geographicDistribution Arizona
California, United States
surface form: California

Colorado
Idaho
Nevada
Oregon
Utah
Wyoming
hasFeature ablaut in verb stems
complex aspect system
rich verbal morphology
vowel length contrast
hasLanguage Chemehuevi language
Comanche language
Kawaiisu language
Numic languages
surface form: Mono language (Numic)

Northern Paiute language
Panamint (Koso) language
surface form: Panamint language

Shoshoni language
Southern Paiute language
Ute language
hasSubgroup Central Numic
Southern Numic
Western Numic
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family
partOf Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family
region Great Basin
Plateau of western North America
spokenIn Great Basin
United States of America
surface form: United States

western United States
status endangered language group
studiedBy linguist Lyle Campbell
linguist Wick R. Miller
typology agglutinative language
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Numic partOf Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan