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Shoshone speaking Native Americans occupy areas of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. The number of people who speak Shoshone has been steadily dwindling over the last few decades, so there are only a few hundred people who speak the language fluently today, although a few thousand know it to one degree or another. State nickname: Equality State Other U.S. States Capital Cheyenne Largest city Cheyenne Governor Dave Freudenthal (D) Senators Craig Thomas (R) Mike Enzi (R) Official languages English Area 253,554 km² (10th)  - Land 251,706 km²  - Water 1,851 km² (0. ... // History Early history Native Americans have lived in Utah for several thousand years; most archeological evidence dates such habitation about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. ... State nickname: Silver State, Battle Born State (official) Other U.S. States Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Governor Kenny Guinn (R) Senators Harry Reid (D) John Ensign (R) Official languages None Area 286,367 km² (7th)  - Land 284,396 km²  - Water 1,971 km² (0. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Gem State Other U.S. States Capital Boise Largest city Boise Governor Dirk Kempthorne (R) Senators Larry Craig (R) Mike Crapo (R) Official languages none Area 216,632 km² (14th)  - Land 214,499 km²  - Water 2,133 km² (0. ...

Shoshone is northernmost member of the large Uto-Aztecan language family, which includes over thirty languages whose speakers originally inhabited a vast territory stretching from the Salmon River in central Idaho down into northern and central Mexico. Shoshone belongs to the Numic subbranch of Uto-Aztecan. The word Numic comes from the cognate word in all Numic languages for "Person". For example, in Shoshone the word is "neme", in Panamint it is "nümü", and in Southern Paiute the word is "nuwuvi". The Uto-Aztecan languages are a Native American language family. ... The Salmon River is the name of several different rivers. ... Jump to: navigation, search Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. ...

The grammar of Shoshone is very different from English. It is an agglutinating language, in which words, especially verbs, tend to be quite complex with several morphemes (meaningful elements of sound) strung together. In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest language unit that carries a semantic interpretation. ...

Shoshone speaking tribes consist of a loose affiliation of clans and groups. Each tribe occupies a specific area of land.

See also

• Sacajawea- the Shoshone woman who translated for Lewis and Clark
• Warm Springs Indian Reservation
• Shoshonean Stock
• Timbisha language
• Comanche language

Sacagawea (Sakakawea, Sacajawea; see below) (c. ... The Warm Springs Indian Reservation is a barren 640,000 acres (2,590 km²) located in north central Oregon (parts of Wasco County and Jefferson County), 105 miles southeast of Portland. ... Shoshonean Stock is a term that is used to describe one of the principal linguistic groups of North American Indians. ... The Timbisha language (also called Panamint and spelled Tümpisa) is the language of the Native American people who inhabited the region in and around Death Valley, California in late prehistoric times. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Comanche language is a member of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. ...

External link

• Ethnologue report for Shoshone