Uto-Aztecan languages - pretty cool!
February 7, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Uto-Aztecan languages - pretty cool!
Languages spoken in the continental United States BEFORE ENGLISH:
Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan-Catawban, Athabaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Muskogean, Salishan, Penutian, SPANISH, French, Dutch, Swedish, Chinook Jargon & hundreds of other indigenous languages
Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan-Catawban, Athabaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Muskogean, Salishan, Penutian, SPANISH, French, Dutch, Swedish, Chinook Jargon & hundreds of other indigenous languages
February 10, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Languages spoken in the continental United States BEFORE ENGLISH:
Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan-Catawban, Athabaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Muskogean, Salishan, Penutian, SPANISH, French, Dutch, Swedish, Chinook Jargon & hundreds of other indigenous languages
Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan-Catawban, Athabaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Muskogean, Salishan, Penutian, SPANISH, French, Dutch, Swedish, Chinook Jargon & hundreds of other indigenous languages
Pikes Peak, it was known as Tavá Kaa-vi — the Sun Mountain. The mountain was named such by the indigenous Nuche tribe, a Numic-speaking people (Uto-Aztecan) known today as the Ute. It is the first Colorado 14er to have the sun hit its peak at dawn.
#ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#MountainMonday
#ir
#ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#MountainMonday
#ir
February 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Pikes Peak, it was known as Tavá Kaa-vi — the Sun Mountain. The mountain was named such by the indigenous Nuche tribe, a Numic-speaking people (Uto-Aztecan) known today as the Ute. It is the first Colorado 14er to have the sun hit its peak at dawn.
#ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#MountainMonday
#ir
#ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#MountainMonday
#ir
A new study suggests Teotihuacan’s murals may record an early Uto-Aztecan language, linking the ancient city to the Aztecs a millennium later. The metropolis may not have been silent after all. #Archaeology #Linguistics #Mesoamerica #Teotihuacan www.anthropology.net/p/the-lost-l...
The Lost Language of Teotihuacan: How Two Linguists May Have Found the Voice of a Forgotten Empire
A new study argues that the ancient murals of Teotihuacan may record an early ancestor of the Uto-Aztecan languages, bridging a thousand-year gap between the city’s fall and the rise of the Aztecs.
www.anthropology.net
October 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A new study suggests Teotihuacan’s murals may record an early Uto-Aztecan language, linking the ancient city to the Aztecs a millennium later. The metropolis may not have been silent after all. #Archaeology #Linguistics #Mesoamerica #Teotihuacan www.anthropology.net/p/the-lost-l...
Living Languages of the Americas, a quick overview
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#IndigenousPeoplesDay
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#IndigenousPeoplesDay
October 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Living Languages of the Americas, a quick overview
www.aidanem.com/living-langu...
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
www.aidanem.com/living-langu...
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
#NativeAmericanHeritageFact :The Uto-Aztecan language family, which spans from the Western U.S. to Mesoamerica, includes languages like Nahuatl (Aztecs), Hopi, Shoshone, Comanche, Cahuilla, Paiute, & Ute. This linguistic connection is a powerful reminder that our cultures/languages … 1 of 2)
February 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#NativeAmericanHeritageFact :The Uto-Aztecan language family, which spans from the Western U.S. to Mesoamerica, includes languages like Nahuatl (Aztecs), Hopi, Shoshone, Comanche, Cahuilla, Paiute, & Ute. This linguistic connection is a powerful reminder that our cultures/languages … 1 of 2)
Looking forward to reading the Clause Chaining in Uto-Aztecan languages by Maziar Toosarvandani, that I was able to skim on goggle books. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
All Uto-Aztecan languages have grammatical means for clause chaining - except Nahuatl... what is that about?
All Uto-Aztecan languages have grammatical means for clause chaining - except Nahuatl... what is that about?
November 22, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Looking forward to reading the Clause Chaining in Uto-Aztecan languages by Maziar Toosarvandani, that I was able to skim on goggle books. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
All Uto-Aztecan languages have grammatical means for clause chaining - except Nahuatl... what is that about?
All Uto-Aztecan languages have grammatical means for clause chaining - except Nahuatl... what is that about?
I had planned to write on the article for which I have a short deadline today, but I ended up writing a bunch on the Southern Uto-Aztecan etymology of 'bat' instead...
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I had planned to write on the article for which I have a short deadline today, but I ended up writing a bunch on the Southern Uto-Aztecan etymology of 'bat' instead...
I got bored with the tired old tree visualisations you see everywhere and asked an AI to make me an exciting one.
Here is the Uto-Aztecan language phylogeny visualised in what it calls "space jellyfish" mode.
#phylogenetics #spacejellyfish
Here is the Uto-Aztecan language phylogeny visualised in what it calls "space jellyfish" mode.
#phylogenetics #spacejellyfish
September 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I got bored with the tired old tree visualisations you see everywhere and asked an AI to make me an exciting one.
Here is the Uto-Aztecan language phylogeny visualised in what it calls "space jellyfish" mode.
#phylogenetics #spacejellyfish
Here is the Uto-Aztecan language phylogeny visualised in what it calls "space jellyfish" mode.
#phylogenetics #spacejellyfish
Interesting, we have *w>g in one branch of Uto-Aztecan (Tepiman), didn't know of parallels.
January 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Interesting, we have *w>g in one branch of Uto-Aztecan (Tepiman), didn't know of parallels.
I like Uto-Aztecan but Turkic and Uralic are also awesome
February 21, 2026 at 11:20 AM
I like Uto-Aztecan but Turkic and Uralic are also awesome
#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
Ancient Teotihuacan Murals May Reveal a 2,000-Year-Old Written Language www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-teot...
Ancient Teotihuacan Murals May Reveal a 2,000-Year-Old Written Language
Researchers uncover signs of a written Uto-Aztecan language in Teotihuacan’s murals, linking the ancient city’s people to the Aztecs. Discover what they found.
www.discovermagazine.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ancient Teotihuacan Murals May Reveal a 2,000-Year-Old Written Language www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-teot...
These also have quite a broad geographic reach
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
It's odd to think of scattered bands of Paiute living in the harsh steppes east of the Cascades speaking a language related to that of the Aztecs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
It's odd to think of scattered bands of Paiute living in the harsh steppes east of the Cascades speaking a language related to that of the Aztecs
Uto-Aztecan languages - Wikipedia
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October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
These also have quite a broad geographic reach
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
It's odd to think of scattered bands of Paiute living in the harsh steppes east of the Cascades speaking a language related to that of the Aztecs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
It's odd to think of scattered bands of Paiute living in the harsh steppes east of the Cascades speaking a language related to that of the Aztecs
#langsky #languages
Map showing #Mexico 's 11 language families, including 4 isolates (Chontal of Oaxaca, Huave, Purépecha and Seri) and one Algic (Kickapoo). The largest family is the Uto-Aztecan (Yuto- Nahuan, in dark green)
Map by the Mexican National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI).
Map showing #Mexico 's 11 language families, including 4 isolates (Chontal of Oaxaca, Huave, Purépecha and Seri) and one Algic (Kickapoo). The largest family is the Uto-Aztecan (Yuto- Nahuan, in dark green)
Map by the Mexican National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI).
June 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#langsky #languages
Map showing #Mexico 's 11 language families, including 4 isolates (Chontal of Oaxaca, Huave, Purépecha and Seri) and one Algic (Kickapoo). The largest family is the Uto-Aztecan (Yuto- Nahuan, in dark green)
Map by the Mexican National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI).
Map showing #Mexico 's 11 language families, including 4 isolates (Chontal of Oaxaca, Huave, Purépecha and Seri) and one Algic (Kickapoo). The largest family is the Uto-Aztecan (Yuto- Nahuan, in dark green)
Map by the Mexican National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI).
Uto-Aztecan reconstrution of the day (i.e. I just made it today):
Proto-Corachol-Nahua *pɨ̒tse "to kiss"
Pre-Nahua: *pɨ̒tse-wa
Cognates:
Nahuatl pitsoa
Sta. Teresa Náayeri: pɨ̒itse'e
Probably derived from PUA *putsa "to blow"
(Maybe I should have saved this for Valentine's day...)
Proto-Corachol-Nahua *pɨ̒tse "to kiss"
Pre-Nahua: *pɨ̒tse-wa
Cognates:
Nahuatl pitsoa
Sta. Teresa Náayeri: pɨ̒itse'e
Probably derived from PUA *putsa "to blow"
(Maybe I should have saved this for Valentine's day...)
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Uto-Aztecan reconstrution of the day (i.e. I just made it today):
Proto-Corachol-Nahua *pɨ̒tse "to kiss"
Pre-Nahua: *pɨ̒tse-wa
Cognates:
Nahuatl pitsoa
Sta. Teresa Náayeri: pɨ̒itse'e
Probably derived from PUA *putsa "to blow"
(Maybe I should have saved this for Valentine's day...)
Proto-Corachol-Nahua *pɨ̒tse "to kiss"
Pre-Nahua: *pɨ̒tse-wa
Cognates:
Nahuatl pitsoa
Sta. Teresa Náayeri: pɨ̒itse'e
Probably derived from PUA *putsa "to blow"
(Maybe I should have saved this for Valentine's day...)
The Uto-Aztecan languages are a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
October 18, 2024 at 1:35 AM
The Uto-Aztecan languages are a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uto-Azt...
A bit about what Ive been up to the last month: I was in Nayarit, Mexico, starting up a big project which will produce dictionaries for yhectwo uto-aztecan languages Náayeri (Cora) and Wixárika (Huichol).
November 12, 2024 at 7:41 AM
A bit about what Ive been up to the last month: I was in Nayarit, Mexico, starting up a big project which will produce dictionaries for yhectwo uto-aztecan languages Náayeri (Cora) and Wixárika (Huichol).
Thoughtful people: We don’t know where the Indo-Iranian word *mátsya- for ‘fish’ comes from. Perhaps some kind of substrate.
Some guy reading a Nāhuatl book right now: Clearly a Uto-Aztecan borrowing, cf. Nāhuatl mich- ‘fish’.
Some guy reading a Nāhuatl book right now: Clearly a Uto-Aztecan borrowing, cf. Nāhuatl mich- ‘fish’.
July 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Thoughtful people: We don’t know where the Indo-Iranian word *mátsya- for ‘fish’ comes from. Perhaps some kind of substrate.
Some guy reading a Nāhuatl book right now: Clearly a Uto-Aztecan borrowing, cf. Nāhuatl mich- ‘fish’.
Some guy reading a Nāhuatl book right now: Clearly a Uto-Aztecan borrowing, cf. Nāhuatl mich- ‘fish’.
Yoïn in zijn Uto-Aztecan era?!
February 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Yoïn in zijn Uto-Aztecan era?!
Hey you know what's interesting? Pluralia tantum, that's what. Check it out! #Linguistics
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
Plural reference dominance, markedness and semantic categorization in Hiaki pluralia tantum
We provide a description and analysis of “pluralia tantum” (PT) nouns in the Southern Uto-Aztecan language Hiaki (Yaqui, Yoeme, YAQ ISO 639-3). We find that these nouns, which require plural morphosyn...
www.glossa-journal.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Hey you know what's interesting? Pluralia tantum, that's what. Check it out! #Linguistics
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
Hello, Tovaangar! I'm a UCLA-trained, Los Angeles-based comparative archeologist, linguist, and mythologist who spends most of his research time digging into the Austronesian, Indo-European, and Uto-Aztecan language families, with a special interest in the intersection of the sacred and the profane.
November 19, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Hello, Tovaangar! I'm a UCLA-trained, Los Angeles-based comparative archeologist, linguist, and mythologist who spends most of his research time digging into the Austronesian, Indo-European, and Uto-Aztecan language families, with a special interest in the intersection of the sacred and the profane.