Yuman

American  

[yoo-muhn] / ˈju mən /

noun

1. a family of languages including the language shared by the Yuma and Mohave Indians and several other languages of the lower valley of the Colorado River.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Yuman.

Yuman British  

/ ˈjuːmən /

noun

1. a family of North American Indian languages spoken chiefly in Arizona, California, and Mexico

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adjective

1. relating to or belonging to this family of languages

Etymology

Origin of Yuman

First recorded in 1890–95; Yum(a) + -an

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Example Sentences

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Yuman

Sprit Mountain is the Yuman tribes’ spiritual birthplace and figures prominently within their ideology.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2020

Bernie Yuman, a friend of Ali’s who was in the dressing room the night of the fight, told Hauser, “We were shaking like leaves.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2019

The Cucapá are one of Baja California’s five native tribes, and are descended from the hunter gatherer Yuman people who migrated here around 1000BC.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2019

Soon we are standing before a sine, and upon that sine are some Yuman letters like the ones I had been lerning.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017

On the whole religious symbolism was more developed than in Central California or even among the Yuman tribes to the east, who are geographically so much nearer the Indians of the Southwest.

From The Religion of the Indians of California by A. L. Kroeber

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