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

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

To which I said: Correct, what I just now spoke, was Yuman, dude.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017

For a long time, no one but me knew I knew Yuman.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017

The Yuman tribes of the mountains east of Santiago wore sandals of maguey fiber and descended from their own territory among the mountains "to eat calabash and other fruits" that grew beside the Colorado River.

From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington