Langenesis

Uto-Aztecan family

Proto-Uto-Aztecan

c. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Uto-Aztecan (c. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Uto-Aztecan language family, with 10 descendant languages and stages on the map.

See Proto-Uto-Aztecan on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of Uto-Aztecan. Homeland is disputed: the Great Basin / US Southwest (traditional view) versus Mesoamerica (Hill's farming-dispersal hypothesis); dates of ~3000-5000 BCE are all proposed.

Descendants 5

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