Papago

Papago, pronounced POP-a-go, is spoken by about 8,000 people in southern Arizona and about 1,000 more in the province of Sonora in northern Mexico. It is closely related to Pima, with about 5,000 additional speakers in southern Arizona—in fact the two are really dialects of the same language. They are sometimes referred to collec-tively as O'odham, the Papago and Pima word for "peop1e." Papago belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family of languages.