Southern Tepehuán language

E122258

Southern Tepehuán language is a Uto-Aztecan indigenous language spoken by the Southern Tepehuán people of northern Mexico.

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language of Mexico
language
belongsTo Southern Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Southern Uto-Aztecan branch
continent North America
country Mexico
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Tepehuan
surface form: Southern Tepehuán
hasAlternativeName Tepehuan
surface form: Southern Tepehuan

Tepehuán
surface form: Tepehuano del sur

Tepehuán de Durango
Tepehuán
surface form: Tepehuán del sur
hasDialect San Bernardino Milpillas dialect
Santa María de Ocotán dialect
Santa María de Ocotán dialect
surface form: Xoconoxtle dialect
hasGlottocode sout2951
hasGlottologName Tepehuan
surface form: Southern Tepehuan
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (reported in some descriptions)
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticFeature bilingualism in Spanish common among speakers
hasSpeakerCommunity indigenous communities in Chihuahua
indigenous communities in Durango
indigenous communities in Nayarit
isDistinctFrom Northern Tepehuán language
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Northern Tepehuán language
iso639-3Code stp
isSubjectTo language shift to Spanish
languageBranch Tepiman languages
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
languageStatus threatened
partOf Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Durango
northern Nayarit
southern Chihuahua
spokenBy Tepehuan people
surface form: Southern Tepehuán people
spokenIn Mexico
northern Mexico
subfamilyOf Tepehuan languages
usedAlongside Spanish language
usedFor oral tradition
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Subject: Southern Tepehuán language
Description of subject: Southern Tepehuán language is a Uto-Aztecan indigenous language spoken by the Southern Tepehuán people of northern Mexico.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tepehuán language Southern Tepehuán language
Northern Tepehuán language relatedTo Southern Tepehuán language
Tepehuan people language Southern Tepehuán language
this entity surface form: Southern Tepehuan language
Tepehuan languages glottologCode Southern Tepehuán language
this entity surface form: sout2981 (Southwestern Tepehuan)