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

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

Wud a Yuman do something like that to another Yuman?

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

With the exception of certain small areas possessed by Shoshonean tribes, Indians of Yuman stock occupied the Colorado River from its mouth as far up as Cataract Creek where dwell the Havasupai.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley