Hualapai
/ˌwɑːləˈpaɪ/noun
A Native American people of northwestern Arizona and their Uto-Aztecan language.
Did you know?Hualapai is an ethnonym from the people’s own Yuman language tradition, and like many tribal names, its exact original internal analysis is not securely settled in mainstream English reference works.
Etymological Timeline
Modern English
English
Hualapai
“The established English name for a Native American people of northwestern Arizona and their language.”
19th Century
English
Hualapai
“Adopted into English from Spanish and/or direct tribal usage in reference to the people living along the lower Colorado River region and nearby areas.”
Pre-Contact / Traditional Usage
Hualapai
Hualapai
“The people’s own ethnonym, used within their community in reference to themselves.”
Proto-Yuman
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“A deeper ancestral form is not securely reconstructed in standard references for this ethnonym.”