Piman refers a group of languages within the Uto-Aztecan

Uto-Aztecan languages

Uto-Aztecan or Uto-Aztekan is a Native American language family consisting of over 30 languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found from the Great Basin of the Western United States , through western, central and southern Mexico Uto-Aztecan or Uto-Aztekan is a Native American language family...

 family that are spoken by ethnic groups (including the Pima

Pima

The Pima are a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona. The long name, "Akimel O'odham", means "river people". They are closely related to the Tohono O'odham and the Hia C-ed O'odham...

) spanning from Arizona in the north to Durango

Durango

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, Mexico

Mexico

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 in the south.

The Piman languages are as follows (Campbell 1997):

1. O'odham

O'odham language

O'odham is an Uto-Aztecan language of southern Arizona and northern Sonora where the Tohono O'odham and Pima reside. As of the year 2000, there were estimated to be approximately 9750 speakers in the United States and Mexico combined, although there may be more due to underreporting...

( Pima language, Papago language)

2. Pima Bajo

Pima Bajo

Pima Bajo is a Mexican indigenous language of the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, spoken by around 1000 speakers in northern Mexico. The language is called O'ob No'ok by its speakers...

( Mountain Pima, Lowland Pima)

3. Tepehuán

Tepehuán language

Tepehuán is the name of two closely related languages of the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, both spoken in northern Mexico...

( Northern Tepehuán, Southeastern Tepehuán, Southwestern Tepehuán)

4. Tepecano

Tepecano

The Tepecano language is an extinct indigenous language of Mexico belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language-family. It was formerly spoken by a small group of people in Azqueltán , Jalisco, a small village on the Río Bolaños in the far northern part of the state, just east of the territory of the...

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Morphology

Piman are agglutinative languages, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morpheme

Morpheme

In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest semantically meaningful unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word,...

s strung together.

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