Sidebar by Jeanne Englert
Ute Language – August 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
A BIT OF EXPLANTION
You may have seen some Ute words in print (they pop up in romances, histories, and Westerns), and the Ute words published here look rather exotic by comparison. That may be because the words you saw were from Northern Ute, which doesn’t use the same orthography (spelling and alphabet) as the Southern Ute discussed here.