8.2. Linguistic variants of the Yuto-Nahua family groupings
The Yuto-Nahua linguistic family receives this name from the fact that Jute (Ute) is, on the one hand, one of the languages ​​spoken in the extreme north of the area occupied by this family – the state of Idaho, in the United States. United States of America–, and that Nahuatl is, on the other hand, the language spoken in the extreme south of the same area. The Yuto-Nahua family is one of those that covers the largest territory on the American continent and includes one of the most numerous sets of languages. Four groups of the northern subfamily are only spoken in the United States of America (Numic, Tübatulabal, Tákico and Hopi). The eleven languages ​​spoken in Mexico belong to three of the groups of the southern subfamily (Tepimano, Taracahita and Corachol-Náhuatl). Previously, there was another group, now extinct, formed by the Tubar language. Pápago (or Alto Pima) and Yaqui are spoken in both Arizona, United States of America, and Sonora, Mexico. Nahuatl is spoken, in addition to Mexico, in El Salvador, Central America.