Paiute

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Historic map of tribes called "Paiute" overlaid on a map of present-day western US state borders

Paiute (

Uto-Aztecan languages, these three languages do not form a single subgroup and they are no more closely related to each than they are to the Central Numic languages (Timbisha, Shoshoni, and Comanche
) which are spoken between them. The term "Paiute" does not refer to a single, unique, unified group of Great Basin tribes, but is a historical label comprising:

  • Northern Paiute people of northeastern California, northwestern Nevada, eastern Oregon, and southern Idaho
  • Southern Paiute people of northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah
  • Mono people of east central California, divided into Owens Valley Paiute (Eastern Mono) and Western Mono (Monache)

Linguistic differences

Though sharing similar Numic roots, the three groups historically called Paiute have different languages as shown below:

Numic
Western

Northern Paiute

Mono

Southern

Kawaiisi

Southern Paiute

Mutually intelligible groups of dialects
are grouped together at the bottom of each branch in italics.
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