Northern Paiute | |
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Paviotso | |
Numu | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho |
Ethnicity | 6,000 Northern Paiute and Bannock (1999)[1] |
Native speakers | 700 (2007)[1] |
Uto-Aztecan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pao |
Glottolog | nort2954 |
ELP | Northern Paiute |
![]() Map showing the traditional geographic distribution of Northern Paiute and Mono | |
![]() Northern Paiute is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Northern Paiute /ˈpaɪuːt/,[2] endonym Numu,[3] also known as Paviotso, is a Western Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, which according to Marianne Mithun had around 500 fluent speakers in 1994.[4] It is closely related to the Mono language.