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Uto-Aztecan languages map

53 Uto-Aztecan languages are on the map, most of them in Mexico and United States. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Southern Uto-Aztecan (44 languages). The best-known members include Central Guerrero Nahuatl, Huichol and Tlaxcala-Puebla-Central Nahuatl. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Uto-Aztecan family at a glance

  • 53languages
  • 14drawn as areas
  • 39shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Uto-Aztecan alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Uto-Aztecan languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Central Guerrero Nahuatl spoken? (about 150,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Huichol spoken? (about 48,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Tlaxcala-Puebla-Central Nahuatl spoken? (about 40,000 speakers)
  4. Where is Mayo spoken? (about 39,000 speakers)
  5. Where is Tohono O'odham spoken? (about 15,000 speakers)
  6. Where is Hopi spoken? (about 6,780 speakers)
  7. Where is Tetelcingo Nahuatl spoken? (about 3,500 speakers)
  8. Where is Huarijio spoken? (about 2,136 speakers)
  9. Where is Coatepec Nahuatl spoken? (about 1,400 speakers)
  10. Where is Pipil spoken? (about 1,135 speakers)

Branches of Uto-Aztecan

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Southern Uto-Aztecan (44)
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan (9)

Where Uto-Aztecan languages are spoken

Countries with the most Uto-Aztecan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 53 Uto-Aztecan languages, A to Z

Questions about Uto-Aztecan languages

How many Uto-Aztecan languages are there?

53 living Uto-Aztecan languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Southern Uto-Aztecan (44 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Uto-Aztecan languages spoken?

Mexico (43), United States (12) and El Salvador (1) have the most Uto-Aztecan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Uto-Aztecan languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Central Guerrero Nahuatl (about 150,000), Huichol (about 48,000) and Tlaxcala-Puebla-Central Nahuatl (about 40,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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