mass noun
- a proposed superfamily or phylum of American Indian languages, most of which are now extinct or nearly so. Some scholars include certain living languages of Central and South America, principally Mayan and Mapuche, in this group.佩纽蒂语群（一个设想的北美印第安语超语族, 其绝大部分语言已绝迹或接近绝迹, 有些学者把中美和南美洲的某些现用语言, 主要是马雅语和马普切语, 也包括在这个群体中）。
- of, relating to, or denoting these languages or any of the peoples speaking them（与）佩纽蒂语族（有关）的; （与）说佩纽蒂语族中语言之人（有关）的。
词源
from pen and uti, words for 'two' in two groups of Penutian languages+-AN.