Piman (or Tepiman) refers to a group of languages within the

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family that are spoken by ethnic groups (including the

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) spanning from Arizona in the north to

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, Mexico in the south. The Piman languages are as follows (Campbell 1997): : 1. O'odham (also known as Pima language, Papago language) : 2. O'ob (also known as Mountain Pima, Lowland Pima) : 3. O'otham (also known as Tepehuán proper, Southwestern Tepehuán, Southeastern Tepehuán) : 4.

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Morphology

Piman languages are agglutinative, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

Sources

Agglutinative languages Languages of the United States Indigenous languages of the Southwestern United States Indigenous languages of the North American Southwest {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub