🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

ユート族

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Yūto-zoku

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ute/juːt/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"ユート族は北米の先住民族の一つです。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A member of a Native American people of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

    "The Ute tribe has a rich cultural heritage tied to the mountains of Colorado."
  2. 2

    The Numic language spoken by the Ute people.

    "Efforts are being made by local schools to preserve and teach the Ute language to younger generations."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the endonym of the Nuche people, meaning 'land of the sun' or 'they who ride'. The term entered English via Spanish borrowings from the historical Southern Numic language family spoken by indigenous peoples of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions. Over centuries, it evolved from an ethnic self-designation into a recognized geographic, tribal, and linguistic identifier in American English.

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