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Uto-Aztecan

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Uto-Aztecan
/yooh"toh az"tek euhn/, n.
1. an American Indian language family, widespread from Idaho to Central America and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific: this family includes Hopi, Ute, Shoshone, Comanche, Nahuatl, Papago, Pima, and other languages.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to Uto-Aztecan.
[1891; UTE + -O- + AZTECAN]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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