Language

1. Weber Ute vocabulary
2. Some names of places in Goshute dialect, most from along the Wasatch Front
3. Weber Utes spoke “the same dialect as the other Northwestern bands”
4. Weber Ute language “similar to that of other Shoshoni”
5. “Cum-min-tails, or Weber Utes…the Utah element largely predominates in their language”
6. “Weber River Yutas…their chief settlement is forty miles to the north…they understand Shoshonee”
7. Clifford Duncan: “Cumumbas would mean ‘speaks two language'”
8. Ute language dictionary: “Goshutes — Kum-um-bar”
9. Charlie Mack gives Ute term for Weber Utes, says it means “talks different.” His mother was of this group, his father a Uintah Ute
10. From Paiute language: “Koomu’umpaw’haw — (Cumumba) Talks different”
11. Weber Utes (or Cumumba = Rabbit Fish Eaters), also called Kumanpagi by author, were interrelated people of the Salt Lake Valley.
12. People who held land from Salt Lake Valley to Weber Valley had similar language to Goshutes, but with differences. Language much closer to Shoshone than to Ute, despite “widespread statements to the contrary”
13. James S. Brown: “The Indians we met [in Salt Lake Valley] were called Utes, but they were different from the Utes over on the reservation and talked more like the Shoshones, in the north.”