In 2005, the Northwest Indian Language Institute of the
University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Northern Paiute and
Kiksht in the
Warm Springs Indian Reservation schools.[7] In 2013,
Washoe County, Nevada became the first school district in Nevada to offer Northern Paiute classes, offering an elective course in the language at Spanish Springs High School.[8] Classes have also been taught at Reed High School in
Sparks, Nevada.[9]
Elder Ralph Burns of the
Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation worked with
University of Nevada, Reno linguist Catherine Fowler to help develop a spelling system. The alphabet uses 19 letters. They have also developed a language-learning book, “Numa Yadooape,” and a series of computer disks of language lessons.[9]
Morphology
Northern Paiute is an
agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several
morphemes strung together.
^Haynes, Erin Flynn (2010). Phonetic and Phonological Acquisition in Endangered Languages Learned by Adults: A Case Study of Numu (Oregon Northern Paiute) (PhD thesis). Berkeley: University of California.
^Babel, Molly; Houser, Michael J.; Toosarvandani, Maziar (2012), "Mono Lake Northern Paiute", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 42 (2): 240,
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