How To Use Shoshonean In A Sentence
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The Hopi number about 2,500 and are a Shoshonean stock.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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Their language is known as Cahita, being the same as that spoken, with dialectic differences, by their neighbours, the Tehueco, and Yaqui, and belonging to the Piman branch of the great Shoshonean stock.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The distribution of Uto-Aztecan, a general family of languages, extends from the Aztecan or Nahuatlan languages in central Mexico to Hopi in Arizona and Southern Californian Shoshonean, among many others.
Aztec, Mexica, or Alien?
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Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma.
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However, they are of a distinctly different linguistic stock, speaking a Tewa language brought from the Rio Grande, while the Hopi speak a dialect of the Shoshonean.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma.
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The songs joined, Latin and Hebrew, Zuni and Shoshonean; fingers beckoned; the raven spread wings as if to fly to the Underworld.
Operation Luna
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Here and there, in detached plateaux enfolded among the ranges (like the Salt Lake basin and the Shoshonean plateaux in America), there are isolated grassy plains, repeating on a smaller scale the great grassland which skirts the Black Sea and the Caspian.
The Unity of Civilization
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It happens that the Hopi tongue is a composite, mainly a Shoshonean dialect, probably accumulated as the various clans of the present tribe gathered in northeastern Arizona, from the cactus country to the south, the San Juan country to the northward and the Rio Grande valley to the eastward.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
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Elevation 1,110 ft. The word "cucamonga" is from the Shoshonean, meaning "sandy place.
The Annotated "Pride of Cucamonga"
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Shoshonean dialects be such evidence, and none of a movement from within this area out of it, although such movements must have taken place, at least in the early history of the region.
The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198
