| SOUTHERN-PERIPHERY-EAST notional classification (of a geographic sequence of extinct and largely unrecorded languages in north central Mexico and adjacent USA, at least some of which were probably Uto-Aztecan) ➤ for purposes of reference, and to help complete the picture of North America's extreme linguistic complexity prior to ethnic clearance, these languages have been treated below as successive components - from north to south – of a notional chain, forming a geographic (and possible linguistic) link between the 2 previous chains. The following represent only the principal or best known communities among several hundreds named in this area by early European invaders, prior to their being destroyed, dispersed or linguistically submerged ◁ [51=] Español and/or [52=] English ¶ spoken principally by nomadic hunter-gatherer bands |