Yuman

American  

[yoo-muhn] / ˈyu 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

Some Yumans heer me speeking Yuman so gud they give me some Chiken, and I sit rite at there Table.

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 Hungarian Jesuit was the first to note the southeastern linguistic boundary of the California Yuman groups, a boundary which lay immediately north of Bahía de Los Angeles.

From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by Massey, William C.