Uto-Aztecan languages
Uto-Aztecan or Uto-Aztekan /ˈjuːtoʊ.æzˈtɛkən/ is a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over 30 languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The name of the language family was created to show that it includes both the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan) of Mexico.
Uto-Aztecan | |
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Geographic distribution | Western United States, Mexico |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
Proto-language | Proto-Uto-Aztecan |
Subdivisions | |
ISO 639-5 | azc |
Glottolog | utoa1244[1] |
Pre-contact distribution of Uto-Aztecan languages. | |
Current extent of Uto-Aztecan languages in Mexico |
The Uto-Aztecan language family is one of the largest linguistic families in the Americas in terms of number of speakers, number of languages, and geographic extension.[2] The northernmost Uto-Aztecan language is Shoshoni, which is spoken as far north as Salmon, Idaho, while the southernmost is the Pipil language of El Salvador. Ethnologue gives the total number of languages in the family as 61, and the total number of speakers as 1,900,412.[3] The roughly 1.7-1.9 million speakers of Nahuatl languages account for almost four-fifths (78.9%) of these.
The internal classification of the family often divides the family into two branches: a northern branch including all the languages of the US and a Southern branch including all the languages of Mexico, although it is still being discussed whether this is best understood as a genetic classification or as a geographical one. Below this level of classification the main branches are well accepted: Numic (including languages such as Comanche and Shoshoni) and the Californian languages (formerly known as the Takic group, including Cahuilla and Luiseño) account for most of the Northern languages. Hopi and Tübatulabal are languages outside those groups. The Southern languages are divided into the Tepiman languages (including O'odham and Tepehuán), the Tarahumaran languages (including Raramuri and Guarijio), the Cahitan languages (including Yaqui and Mayo), the Coracholan languages (including Cora and Huichol), and the Nahuan languages.
The homeland of the Uto-Aztecan languages is generally considered to have been in the Southwestern United States or possibly Northwestern Mexico. An alternative theory has proposed the possibility that the language family originated in southern Mexico, within the Mesoamerican language area, but this has not been generally considered convincing.
Geographic distribution
Uto-Aztecan languages are spoken in the North American mountain ranges and adjacent lowlands of the western United States (in the states of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona) and of Mexico (states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Durango, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guerrero, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz, Morelos, Estado de México, and Ciudad de México. Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and its modern relatives are part of the Uto-Aztecan family. The Pipil language, an offshoot of Nahuatl, spread to Central America by a wave of migration from Mexico, and formerly had many speakers there. Now it has gone extinct in Guatemala and Honduras, and it is nearly extinct in western El Salvador, all areas dominated by use of Spanish.
- Uto-Aztecan-speaking communities in and around Mexico
Classification
History of classification
Uto-Aztecan has been accepted by linguists as a language family since the early 1900s, and six subgroups are generally accepted as valid: Numic, Takic, Pimic, Taracahitic, Corachol, and Aztecan. That leaves two ungrouped languages: Tübatulabal and Hopi (sometimes termed "isolates within the family"). Some recent studies have begun to question the unity of Taracahitic and Takic and computer-assisted statistical studies have begun to question some of the long-held assumptions and consensuses. As to higher-level groupings, disagreement has persisted since the 19th century. Presently scholars also disagree as to where to draw language boundaries within the dialect continua.
The similarities among the Uto-Aztecan languages were noted as early as 1859 by J. C. E. Buschmann, but he failed to recognize the genetic affiliation between the Aztecan branch and the rest. He ascribed the similarities between the two groups to diffusion. Daniel Garrison Brinton added the Aztecan languages to the family in 1891 and coined the term Uto-Aztecan. John Wesley Powell, however, rejected the claim in his own classification of North American indigenous languages (also published in 1891). Powell recognized two language families: "Shoshonean" (encompassing Takic, Numic, Hopi, and Tübatulabal) and "Sonoran" (encompassing Pimic, Taracahitan, and Corachol). In the early 1900s Alfred L. Kroeber filled in the picture of the Shoshonean group,[4] while Edward Sapir proved the unity among Aztecan, "Sonoran", and "Shoshonean".[5][6][7] Sapir's applications of the comparative method to unwritten Native American languages are regarded as groundbreaking. Voegelin, Voegelin & Hale (1962) argued for a three-way division of Shoshonean, Sonoran and Aztecan, following Powell.[8]
As of about 2011, there is still debate about whether to accept the proposed basic split between "Northern Uto-Aztecan" and "Southern Uto-Aztecan" languages.[2] Northern Uto-Aztecan corresponds to Powell's "Shoshonean", and the latter is all the rest: Powell's "Sonoran" plus Aztecan. Northern Uto-Aztecan was proposed as a genetic grouping by Jeffrey Heath in Heath (1978) based on morphological evidence, and Alexis Manaster Ramer in Manaster Ramer (1992) adduced phonological evidence in the form of a sound law. Terrence Kaufman in Kaufman (1981) accepted the basic division into Northern and Southern branches as valid. Other scholars have rejected the genealogical unity of either both nodes or the Northern node alone.[9][10][11][12] Wick R. Miller's argument was statistical, arguing that Northern Uto-Aztecan languages displayed too few cognates to be considered a unit. On the other hands he found the number of cognates among Southern Uto-Aztecan languages to suggest a genetic relation.[11] This position was supported by subsequent lexicostatistic analyses by Cortina-Borja & Valiñas-Coalla (1989) and Cortina-Borja, Stuart-Smith & Valiñas-Coalla (2002). Reviewing the debate, Haugen (2008) considers the evidence in favor of the genetic unity of Northern Uto-Aztecan to be convincing, but remains agnostic on the validity of Southern Uto-Aztecan as a genetic grouping. Hill (2011) also considered the North/South split to be valid based on phonological evidence, confirming both groupings. Merrill (2013) adduced further evidence for the unity of Southern Uto-Aztecan as a valid grouping.
Hill (2011) also rejected the validity of the Takic grouping decomposing it into a Californian areal grouping together with Tubatulabal.
Some classifications have posited a genetic relation between Corachol and Nahuan (e.g. Merrill (2013)). Kaufman recognizes similarities between Corachol and Aztecan, but explains them by diffusion instead of genetic evolution.[13] Most scholars view the breakup of Proto-Uto-Aztecan as a case of the gradual disintegration of a dialect continuum.[14]
Present scheme
Below is a representation of the internal classification of the language family based on Shaul (2014). The classification reflects the decision to split up the previous Taracahitic and Takic groups, that are no longer considered to be valid genetic units. Whether the division between Northern and Southern languages is best understood as geographical or phylogenetic is under discussion. The table contains demographic information about number of speakers and their locations based on data from The Ethnologue. The table also contains links to a selected bibliography of grammars, dictionaries on many of the individual languages.(† = extinct)
Genealogical classification of Uto-Aztecan languages | ||||||
Family | Groups | Languages | Where spoken and approximate number of speakers | Works | ||
Uto-Aztecan languages | Northern Uto-Aztecan (possibly an areal grouping) |
Numic | Western Numic | Paviotso, Bannock, Northern Paiute | 700 speakers in California, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada | Nichols (1973) |
Mono | About 40 speakers in California | Lamb (1958) | ||||
Central Numic | ||||||
Shoshoni, Goshiute | 1000 fluent speakers and 1000 learners in Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Idaho | McLaughlin (2012) | ||||
Comanche | 100 speakers in Oklahoma | Robinson & Armagost (1990) | ||||
Timbisha, Panamint | 20 speakers in California and Nevada | Dayley (1989) | ||||
Southern Numic | Colorado River dialect chain: Ute, Southern Paiute, Chemehuevi | 920 speakers of all dialects, in Colorado, Nevada, California, Utah, Arizona | Givón (2011), Press (1979), Sapir (1992) | |||
Kawaiisu | 5 speakers in California | Zigmond, Booth & Munro (1991) | ||||
Californian language area | Serran | Serrano, Kitanemuk (†) | No native speakers | Hill (1967) | ||
Cupan | Cahuilla, Cupeño | 35 speakers of Cahuilla, no native speakers of Cupeño | Seiler (1977), Hill (2005) | |||
Luiseño-Juaneño | 5 speakers in Southern California | Kroeber & Grace (1960) | ||||
Tongva (Gabrielino-Fernandeño) | Last native speakers died in early 1900s, in 21st century undergoing revival efforts, Southern California | Munro & Gabrielino/Tongva Language Committee (2008) | ||||
Hopi | Hopi | 6,800 speakers in northeastern Arizona | Hopi Dictionary Project (1998), Jeanne (1978) | |||
Tübatulabal | Tübatulabal | 5 speakers in Kern County, California | Voegelin (1935), Voegelin (1958) | |||
Southern Uto-Aztecan (possibly an areal grouping) |
Tepiman | |||||
Pimic | O'odham (Pima-Papago) | 14,000 speakers in southern Arizona, US and northern Sonora, Mexico | Zepeda (1983) | |||
Pima Bajo (O'ob No'ok) | 650 speakers in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico | Estrada-Fernández (1998) | ||||
Tepehuan | Northern Tepehuan | 6,200 speakers in Chihuahua, Mexico | Bascom (1982) | |||
Southern Tepehuan | 10,600 speakers in Southeastern Durango | Willett (1991) | ||||
Tepecano (†) | Extinct since approx. 1985, spoken in Northern Jalisco | Mason (1916) | ||||
Tarahumaran | Tarahumara (several varieties) | 45,500 speakers of all varieties, all spoken in Chihuahua | Caballero (2008) | |||
Upriver Guarijio, Downriver Guarijio | 2,840 speakers in Chihuahua and Sonora | Miller (1996) | ||||
Tubar (†) | Spoken in Sinaloa and Sonora | Lionnet (1978) | ||||
Cahita | Yaqui | 11,800 in Sonora and Arizona | Dedrick & Casad (1999) | |||
Mayo | 33,000 in Sinaloa and Sonora | Freeze (1989) | ||||
Opatan | Opata (†) | Extinct since approx. 1930. Spoken in Sonora. | Shaul (2001) | |||
Eudeve (†) | Spoken in Sonora, but extinct since 1940 | Lionnet (1986) | ||||
Corachol | Cora | 13,600 speakers in northern Nayarit | Casad (1984) | |||
Huichol | 17,800 speakers in Nayarit and Jalisco | Iturrioz Leza & Ramírez de la Cruz (2001) | ||||
Aztecan (Nahuan) | Pochutec (†) | Extinct since 1970s, spoken on the coast of Oaxaca | Boas (1917) | |||
Core Nahuan | Pipil | 20-40 speakers in El Salvador | Campbell (1985) | |||
Nahuatl | 1,500,000 speakers in Central Mexico | Launey (1986), Langacker (1979) |
In addition to the above languages for which linguistic evidence exists, it is suspected that among dozens of now extinct, undocumented or poorly known languages of northern Mexico, many were Uto-Aztecan.[15]
Extinct languages
A large number of languages known only from brief mentions are thought to have been Uto-Aztecan languages that became extinct before being documented.[16]
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Proto-Uto-Aztecan | |
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PUA | |
Reconstruction of | Uto-Aztecan languages |
Region | Aridoamerica |
Era | 3,000 BCE |
Lower-order reconstructions |
Proto-Uto-Aztecan is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Uto-Aztecan languages. Authorities on the history of the language group have usually placed the Proto-Uto-Aztecan homeland in the border region between the United States and Mexico, namely the upland regions of Arizona and New Mexico and the adjacent areas of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, roughly corresponding to the Sonoran Desert and the western part of the Chihuahuan Desert. It would have been spoken by Mesolithic foragers in Aridoamerica, about 5,000 years ago.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Uto-Aztecan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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- Ethnologue (2014). "Summary by language family". SIL International. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
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- Miller 1983, p. 118.
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- Kaufman 2001, .
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- Campbell 1997.
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External links
Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Uto-Aztecan reconstructions |
- Uto-Aztecan.org, a website devoted to the comparative study of the Uto-Aztecan language family
- Swadesh vocabulary lists for Uto-Aztecan languages (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix)