Yuman

noun

Yu·​man ˈyü-mən 

: a family of languages spoken by Indigenous peoples of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico

Yuman adjective

Word History

Etymology

Yuma Quechan (member of a Yuman-speaking people of the lower Colorado River valley), from Spanish, from O'odham yu·mĭ

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above