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uto-aztecan
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[ noun ] (linguistics) a family of American Indian languages
Synonyms Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)He has announced results on Hokan , Penutian , Uto-Aztecan , and almost all other American families and phyla , and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; but he has not worked_out by lexicostatistics one comprehensively complete classification of even a single family other_than Salish . the aspect of learning the internal organization of obvious natural genetic groups of languages as_well as their more remote and elusive external links ; of classification first , with elapsed age merely a by-product ; of acquiring evidential knowledge of what happened in Athabascan , in Yokuts , in Uto-Aztecan in the last few thousand years as_well as forecasting what more anciently may have happened between them . Related terms Amerind Aztecan zapotec Nahuatl Cahita Tatahumara Pima Shoshonean |
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