Ute-Chemehuevi is a dialect chain within Southern Numic that extends from central Colorado westward across Utah and southern Nevada to the eastern Mojave Desert in California. There are 3 major regional varieties, all mutually intelligible. Ute (Colorado and central Utah) is spoken by about 900 people in and around three reservation communities:
(1) Southern Ute (Ignacio, Colorado), where there about 100 first-language speakers, the youngest about 55, out of a total population of 1,300.
(2) Ute Mountain Ute (Towaoc, Colorado), where there about 500 first language speakers, the youngest about 25, out of a total population of 1,500.
(3) Uintah & Ouray (Northern) Ute (Ft. Duchesne, Utah), where there about 300 first-language speakers, the youngestabout 45, out of a total population of 2,000.
Southern Paiute (southern Utah and Nevada) is spoken in 10 widely separated communities in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. The 5 Utah communities constitute the Paiute Tribe of Utah and have a total population of about 600.
The San Juan Paiute Tribe is settled on the Navajo Reservation in Utah and Arizona and has a population of 220.
The Kaibab Paiute Tribe, with a reservation north of the Grand Canyon, has a population of 212.
The three southern Nevada tribes (Moapa, Las Vegas, and Pahrump) have a combined population of over 400. The language is spoken to a varying extent in all communities, but only in the San Juan tribe are children still acquiring it as their first language.
Chemehuevi (southern California) is spoken on the Colorado River Indian Reservation at Parker, Arizona (which the Chemehuevis share with Mohaves, Navajos, and Hopis), and on the neighboring Chemehuevi Reservation in California. There are fewer than 20 first-language speakers, with the youngest nearly 40.

Speaker number data: 2000 census. 20 monolinguals (1990 census). 3 Chemehuevi on Chemehuevi Reservation, 10 on Colorado River Reservation (1994 L. Hinton). Ethnic population 5,000 (1977 SIL).

920 (Golla 2007). 3 Chemehuevi on Chemehuevi Reservation, 10 on Colorado River Reservation (Hinton 1994). Ethnic population: 6230 (Golla 2007). Ute: 4,800; Southern Paiute: 1430 (Golla 2007).

Three major dialects: (1) Ute (about 900 speakers); (2) Southern Paiute; and (3) Chemehuevi. Less than 20 people speak the Chemehuevi dialect as a first language.