Piman (or Tepiman) refers to a group of languages within the Uto-Aztecan family that are spoken by ethnic groups (including the Pima) spanning from Arizona in the north to Durango, Mexico in the south.
| Piman | |
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| Tepiman | |
| Linguistic classification | Uto-Aztecan
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| Glottolog | tepi1240 |
The Piman languages are as follows (Campbell 1997):
- 1. O'odham (also known as Pima language, Papago language)
- 2. O'ob (also known as Mountain Pima, Lowland Pima)
- 3. O'otham (also known as Tepehuán proper, Southwestern Tepehuán, Southeastern Tepehuán)
- 4. Tepecano (†)
Linguistic evidence suggests that the various Piman languages split about a thousand years ago.[1]
Morphology
editPiman languages are agglutinative, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.
References
edit- ^ Sheridan, Thomas E. (26 May 2016). Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O’odham. University of Arizona Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-0-8165-3441-8.
Campbell, Lyle (2000) [1997]. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4. William Bright (series general ed.) (OUP paperback ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1. OCLC 32923907.
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