Tepehuan languages

E404993

Tepehuan languages are a group of closely related Uto-Aztecan indigenous languages spoken by the Tepehuan people in northern Mexico.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tepehuan languages canonical 3
Tepehuán languages 2

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan languages
language group
arealGrouping Mesoamerican languages
languages of the Sierra Madre Occidental
associatedWith Tepehuan cultural identity
Tepehuan traditional religion
belongsTo indigenous languages of the Americas
branchOf Tepiman languages
closelyRelatedTo O'odham languages
surface form: O’odham language

Pima Bajo language
country Mexico
ethnicity Tepehuan
glottologCode nort2951 (Northern Tepehuan)
Tepehuan
surface form: sout2980 (Southeastern Tepehuan)

Southern Tepehuán language
surface form: sout2981 (Southwestern Tepehuan)
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verbal morphology
productive derivational suffixes
hasPart Northern Tepehuán language
surface form: Northern Tepehuan language

Southeastern Tepehuan language
Southwestern Tepehuan language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone in some varieties
rich consonant inventory
historicalRegion Sierra Madre Occidental
ISO639-3Code Northern Tepehuán language
surface form: ntp (Northern Tepehuan)

stp (Southeastern Tepehuan)
tla (Southwestern Tepehuan)
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan language family
region Chihuahua
Durango
Nayarit
spokenBy Tepehuan people
spokenIn Mexico
northern Mexico
status endangered
subclassOf Southern Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Southern Uto-Aztecan languages

indigenous languages of Mexico
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
linguistic documentation projects
typology agglutinative language
usedFor everyday communication within Tepehuan communities
ritual and ceremonial speech
traditional oral literature
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Southern Uto-Aztecan hasLanguage Tepehuan languages
Southern Tepehuán language subfamilyOf Tepehuan languages
Rarámuri language closelyRelatedTo Tepehuan languages
this entity surface form: Tepehuán languages
Sierra del Nayar hasLanguageCommunity Tepehuan languages
this entity surface form: Tepehuán languages