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Nevada, a state in the western region of the United States of America, hosts a large number of Native Americans who have traditionally lived in the Great Basin, a large geographic feature of Nevada. There are four Native American languages that are spoken by recognized tribes of Nevada, three of which fall under the Uto-Aztecan languages classification (Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone), while the other is an isolate. A minority language is also spoken in Nevada.

Distribution

There are four Native American languages currently spoken in Nevada. Population estimates are based on figures from Ethnologue and U.S. Census data, as given in sub-pages below. The four languages are shown in the table below:

Minority languages

• Mojave language is spoken on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation, which is split between Arizona, California, and Nevada, in order of decreasing land area present in each respective state. Mojave is a Yuman language.

See also

• Native Americans in the United States
• Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
• Indigenous languages of the Americas
• Uto-Aztecan languages
• Washo language

Notes

1. According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Comanche is also spoken in Nevada.

References

1. "Native American Languages". Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (6th ed.). 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-09 – via EBSCOHost.

• Indigenous languages of the Southwestern United States
• Indigenous languages of the North American Great Basin
• Indigenous languages of Nevada
• Native American history of Nevada