Relating to or denoting a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes Comanche and Shoshone.
肖肖尼语支（犹他一阿兹特克语族的一个分支，包括科曼切语和肖肖尼语）
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The westernmost of the Pueblo Indian tribes, the independent Hopi Nation is the only Pueblo tribe that speaks a Shoshonean language of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family.
The Northern Paiutes speak a Shoshonean language, while that spoken by the Owens Valley Paiutes is related to the language of the Mono peoples of California.
nounʃəˈʃəʊnɪən
mass noun
The Shoshonean languages.
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Other Indian groups of the U.S. who speak Shoshonean are the Paiutes, Goshutes, Shoshones, Bannocks, Comanches, Chemehuevi and some tribes in California.