Piman languages

"Piman" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Piman, Iran.

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
Tepiman
Linguistic classification	Uto-Aztecan Southern Piman
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

Piman languages are agglutinative, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

References

1. 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.