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Sonoran, a.|səˈnɔərən|
[f. Sonora, the name of a state in North-west Mexico + -an.]
1. Of or pertaining to a biogeographical region including desert areas of the south-western United States and central Mexico.
1880E. D. Cope in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. XVIII. 263 This collection..is of interest as serving to fix the extension of the Sonoran fauna to a point further south. 1892Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington VII. 15 The term ‘Sonoran Region’ has been applied by Cope and others to an important life area which enters the southwestern part of the United States from the table-land of Mexico. 1902Nature 14 Aug. 374/1 It is somewhat regrettable to find that the author is unable to convince himself of the necessity of a Sonoran region. 1937Discovery July 206/1 This sub-region has much in common with the Sonoran sub-region of the Nearctic Region. 1979Tucson (Ariz.) Mag. Feb. 79/1 There are more than 350 varieties of live animals and plants of the Sonoran desert on exhibit.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a grouping of related Indian languages spoken in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
The nineteenth-century classification of some Uto-Aztecan languages into a Sonoran sub-group is now discarded.
[1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races of Pacific States III. 670 Sound-shunting..has..been found by Mr Buschmann in the languages of his Sonora family.] 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 123 The Sonoran branch [of the Uto-Aztecan stock] begins on the north with the Pimas, who occupied the middle valley of the Gila, and the land south of it quite to the Rio Yaqui. I continue for it the name of Sonoran given by Buschmann, although it extended far beyond the bounds of that province. 1909A. F. Chamberlain in Amer. Anthropologist XI. 535 A number of Shoshonean languages, from Ute to Nahuatl and some of the Sonoran tongues. 1935B. L. Whorf in Ibid. XXXVII. 606 In times past some of us hoped that the stock could be classified in such a way that we could summarize the situation by stating generalized reflexes for sub-groups such as ‘Shoshonean’, ‘Piman’, ‘Sonoran’, from which the reflexes of the individual tongues in these groups could be derived as a second step. The hope is vain. No such groups exist. 1964S. M. Lamb in Univ. Calif. Publ. Ling. XXXIV. 121 Further investigation of the northern Mexican languages, which Brinton had..put into a single group called Sonoran, revealed a high degree of diversity among them. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin in T. A. Sebeok Native Languages of Americas I. 482 The traditional major branches of the Uto-Aztecan family (Shoshonean, Sonoran and Aztec). |