Northern Paiute language

Northern Paiute
Northern Paiute
Paviotso
Numu
Native to	United States
Region	Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho
Ethnicity	6,000 Northern Paiute and Bannock (1999)
Native speakers	700 (2007)
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Northern Numic Western Northern Paiute; ; ; ;
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
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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.

^ ^a ^b Northern Paiute at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
^ Leonard, Wesley Y.; Haynes, Erin (December 2010). "Making "collaboration" collaborative: An examination of perspectives that frame linguistic field research". Language Documentation & Conservation. 4: 269–293. hdl:10125/4482. ISSN 1934-5275.
^ Mithun 1999, p. 541.