Numic

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Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the Great Basin and surrounding regions of the western United States.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Numic canonical 22

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Uto-Aztecan languages
language group
associatedWith Great Basin Indigenous peoples
glottologCode nort2950 (for the family branch as a whole)
hasFeature case-marking on nouns
consonant length contrast
rich verbal morphology
vowel length contrast
hasLanguage Comanche
Kawaiisu
Mono
Northern Paiute
Shoshoni
Southern Paiute
Timbiša
Ute
linked to: Ute people
hasSubdivision Central Numic
Southern Numic
Western Numic
includesLanguage Comanche
Kawaiisu
Mono
Northern Paiute
Shoshoni
Southern Paiute
Timbiša
Ute
linked to: Ute people
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
memberOf Numic
Numic
Numic
partOf Uto-Aztecan language family
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
region western United States
spokenIn Arizona
California
Great Basin
Idaho
Nevada
Oregon
United States
Utah
Wyoming
status endangered language group
subclassOf Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (22)

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

Uto-Aztecan hasSubfamily Numic
Southern Numic subclassOf Numic
Western Numic memberOf Numic
subject linked to: Numic
Central Numic memberOf Numic
subject linked to: Numic
Southern Numic memberOf Numic
subject linked to: Numic
Ute language branchOf Numic
subject linked to: ute
Ute language branch Numic
Proto-Numic branch Numic
Shoshoni languageBranch Numic
Mono language subfamily Numic
Central Numic subgroupOf Numic
Timbiša languageBranch Numic
Mono language languageBranch Numic
subject linked to: Mono
Wick R. Miller languageBranchStudied Numic
subject linked to: linguist Wick R. Miller