Mohave and Mojave are both tribally accepted and interchangeably used phonetic spellings for a Native Americans in the United States people known among themselves as the Aha macave.... people along the Colorado River in eastern California, northwestern Arizona, and southwestern Nevada. Approximately 70% of the speakers reside in Arizona, while approximately 30% reside in California.
Mojave belongs to the River Yuman branch of the Yuman-Cochimí
Yuman-Cochimí languages
Yuman-Cochim? is a family of languages spoken in Baja California and northern Sonora in Mexico and southern California and western Arizona in the United States.... linguistic family, together with Quechan
Quechan language
Quechan, also known as Yuma , is the native language of the Quechan people of southeastern California and southwestern Arizona.In 1980, it was estimated that there were fewer than 700 speakers of the language, including both the elderly and young .... and Maricopa
Maricopa language
The Maricopa language is spoken by the Native Americans in the United States tribe Maricopa, near Phoenix, Arizona.... .
