Colorado River Numic language

Colorado River Numic
Colorado River Numic
Southern Paiute
Native to	United States
Region	Nevada, California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico
Ethnicity	6,200 Chemehuevi, Southern Paiute and Ute (2007)
Native speakers	920 (2007); 20 monolinguals (1990 census)
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Numic Southern Numic Colorado River Numic; ; ;
Dialects	Chemehuevi; Southern Paiute; Ute;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ute
Glottolog	utes1238
ELP	Ute
	Chemehuevi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Colorado River Numic (also called Ute /ˈjuːt/ YOOT, Southern Paiute /ˈpaɪjuːt/ PIE-yoot, Ute–Southern Paiute, or Ute-Chemehuevi /ˌtʃɛmɪˈweɪvi/ CHEH-mih-WAY-vee), of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, is a dialect chain that stretches from southeastern California to Colorado.^[2] Individual dialects are Chemehuevi, which is in danger of extinction, Southern Paiute (Moapa, Cedar City, Kaibab, and San Juan subdialects), and Ute (Central Utah, Northern, White Mesa, Southern subdialects). According to the Ethnologue, there were a little less than two thousand speakers of Colorado River Numic Language in 1990, or around 40% out of an ethnic population of 5,000.^[3]

The Southern Paiute dialect has played a significant role in linguistics, as the background for a famous article by linguist Edward Sapir and his collaborator Tony Tillohash on the nature of the phoneme.^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c Colorado River Numic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Mithun 1999, p. 542.
^ "Ethnologue report for language code:ute". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2009-06-13.
^ Sapir, Edward (1933). "La réalité psychologique des phonèmes" [The psychological reality of phonemes]. Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique (in French).

[e18-1] Colorado River Numic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[FOOTNOTEMithun1999542-2] Mithun 1999, p. 542.

[3] "Ethnologue report for language code:ute". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2009-06-13.

[sapir1933-4] Sapir, Edward (1933). "La réalité psychologique des phonèmes" [The psychological reality of phonemes]. Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique (in French).

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