Tarahumaran languages

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The Tarahumaran languages are a small group of closely related Uto-Aztecan languages spoken primarily by the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people in northern Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan languages
language group
arealGrouping Mesoamerican languages
Northern Mexican indigenous languages
associatedWithEthnicGroup Guarijío people
Rarámuri people NERFINISHED
Tarahumara people
closelyRelatedTo Cahitan languages
Tepiman languages
endangermentStatus vulnerable
fieldOfStudy Uto-Aztecan linguistics
hasGlossonym Tarahumaran
Tarahumaran branch
Tarahumaran subgroup
hasISO639FamilyCode azc
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish language
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Uto-Aztecan
hasPart Guarijío language
Huarijio language
Tarahumara language
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters in some varieties
contrastive vowel length in some varieties
hasSyntacticFeature use of switch-reference markers in some varieties
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
morphologicalType agglutinative language
partOf Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family
primaryWordOrder SOV
recognizedAs indigenous languages under Mexican law
region Sierra Tarahumara
Northwestern Mexico
surface form: northwestern Mexico
spokenIn Mexico
Sierra Madre Occidental
northern Mexico
state of Chihuahua
status indigenous languages of the Americas
minority languages in Mexico
subclassOf Southern Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
typologicalFeature head-marking
rich verbal morphology
use of postpositions
verb-final
usedBy Guarijío people
surface form: Guarijío communities

Tarahumara
surface form: Tarahumara communities
usedFor everyday communication within communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Taracahitic hasMember Tarahumaran languages
Taracahitic hasMember Tarahumaran languages
this entity surface form: Tarahumara language
Taracahitic namedAfter Tarahumaran languages
this entity surface form: Tarahumara language
Northern Uto-Aztecan containsLanguage Tarahumaran languages
this entity surface form: Tepehuan languages
Northern Uto-Aztecan containsLanguage Tarahumaran languages
this entity surface form: Tarahumara language
Pochutec isRelatedTo Tarahumaran languages
this entity surface form: Tepehuan languages
Tarahumara people language Tarahumaran languages
this entity surface form: Tarahumara language
Rarámuri language subfamilyOf Tarahumaran languages
Guarijío language subfamilyOf Tarahumaran languages
Tehueco language isRelatedTo Tarahumaran languages