The Tepiman or Piman languages are a branch of the Southern Uto-Aztecan family spoken by peoples including the Pima across a range running from Arizona in the United States south to Durango in Mexico. The branch comprises four languages: O'odham, also called Pima or Papago; O'ob, covering Mountain Pima and Lowland Pima; O'otham, the Tepehuán languages split into Southwestern and Southeastern Tepehuán; and the extinct Tepecano. Linguists estimate the various Tepiman languages split from a common ancestor roughly a thousand years ago, and the branch is agglutinative, building words from suffix complexes that string several morphemes together.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Arizona, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Mexico, found in there.
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