| NUMIC, "numanic", "wider" ute, "shoshonean" bilingual < [52=] English (USA) ¶ far-ranging hunter-gatherer shamanistic communities, frequently intermarrying, and sometimes becoming equestrian nomads after acquistion of the horse from [51=] Spanish-speaking settlers in early 18th cent. ➤ a network of closely inter-related nomadic idioms formerly covering a wide area from the Sierra Nevada northwards & eastwards across the Great Basin # "numic, numanic" |