Langenesis

Uto-Aztecan family

Comanche

c. 1700 CE – today Living

Comanche (c. 1700 CE – today) is a living Uto-Aztecan language. Lineage: Proto-Uto-Aztecan → Proto-Numic → Comanche.

See Comanche on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
com
Glottocode
coma1245

Central Numic. Split from Shoshoni around 1700, when the Comanche moved onto the southern Plains. Critically endangered, with very few fluent speakers left.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Uto-Aztecanc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Numicc. 500 CE – 1200 CE
  3. Comanchec. 1700 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Numic.

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