Aztec–Tanoan languages

Aztec–Tanoan
Geographic distribution	central North America
Linguistic classification	proposed language family
Subdivisions	Kiowa–Tanoan Uto-Aztecan
Language codes

Kiowa–Tanoan languages

Pre-contact distribution of Northern Uto-Aztecan languages (note: this map does not show the total distribution in Mexico)

Uto-Aztecan languages in Mesoamerica

Aztec–Tanoan is a hypothetical and undemonstrated language family that proposes a genealogical relation to the Kiowa-Tanoan and the Uto-Aztecan families. In some forms, Aztec–Tanoan has also included the Zuni isolate.

See also

• Kiowa-Tanoan
• Uto-Aztecan
• Zuni language

Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Campbell, Lyle; & Mithun, Marianne (Eds.). (1979). The languages of native America: Historical and comparative assessment. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). Handbook of North American Indians: Languages (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
• Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
• Whorf, Benjamin L.; & Trager, George L. (1937). The relationship of Uto-Aztecan and Tanoan. American Anthropologist, 39, 609-624.