Minor Sonoran

Minor Sonoran is a term I use to refer to the branch of Southern Uto-Aztecan that includes all the Southern-Uto-Aztecan languages except Tepiman.

It differs from the grouping traditionally called "Sonoran" (e.g. by Kroeber (???), [[Lionnet, André. 1985. Relaciones internas de la rama sonorense. Amerindia. 27-57.|Lionnet 1985), in that the latter is in fact an areal grouping, that includes all the Uto-Aztecan branches represented in the Mexican state of Sonora: Tepiman, Cahitan, and Tara-Guarijío-Ópata and Tubar. It also differes from what I call Sonoran languages, which are only those subgroups of the Minor Sonoran branch, that are actually spoken in the state of Sonora, i.e. Cahitan, Taragiarijío, Ópatan and Tubar.