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Northern Paiute language
Numic language spoken in western US From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Northern Paiute /ˈpaɪuːt/,[2] endonym Numu or nɨɨmɨ,[3][4] 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.[5] It is closely related to the Mono language.
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Language revitalization
In 2005, the Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Northern Paiute and Kiksht in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation schools.[6] In 2013, Washoe County, Nevada became the first school district in Nevada to offer Northern Paiute classes, offering an elective course in the language at Spanish Springs High School.[7] Classes have also been taught at Reed High School in Sparks, Nevada.[8]
Elder Ralph Burns of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation worked with University of Nevada, Reno linguist Catherine Fowler to help develop a spelling system. The alphabet uses 19 letters. They have also developed a language-learning book, “Numa Yadooape,” and a series of computer disks of language lessons.[8]
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Phonology
Northern Paiute's phonology is highly variable, and its phonemes have many allophones.[9]
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Morphology
Northern Paiute is an agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.
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