Tepehuán de Durango

E507004

Tepehuán de Durango is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tepehuán people primarily in the state of Durango in northern Mexico.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Tepehuán del Norte 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Northern Tepehuan language
Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language
language of Mexico
belongsToMacroarea North America NERFINISHED
coexistsWith Spanish language NERFINISHED
countryOfficialLanguageStatus not an official language of Mexico
endangeredStatus threatened
vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Tepehuán NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Northern Tepehuan NERFINISHED
Tepehuán del Norte NERFINISHED
Tepehuán del estado de Durango NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb)
hasCulturalRole marker of Tepehuán identity
hasDocumentationType grammatical descriptions
lexicons and wordlists
text collections
hasLanguageFamilyBranch Tepiman
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (reported in some descriptions)
hasSpeakerCommunity rural communities in Durango
hasSpeakerTrend declining intergenerational transmission
isDistinctFrom Southern Tepehuan NERFINISHED
Tepehuán de Chihuahua NERFINISHED
languageCodeISO639-3 ntp
languageFamilyNeighbor O’odham NERFINISHED
Pima Bajo NERFINISHED
languagePolicyContext Mexican indigenous language rights framework
linguisticTypologyArea Mesoamerican and Uto-Aztecan contact zone
partOfLanguageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family NERFINISHED
recognizedBy Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI) NERFINISHED
region Sierra Madre Occidental NERFINISHED
northern Mexico NERFINISHED
spokenBy Northern Tepehuan people NERFINISHED
Tepehuán people NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry Mexico NERFINISHED
spokenInState Durango NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Tepiman languages NERFINISHED
usedInDomain daily communication in indigenous communities
oral tradition
traditional ceremonies
usedInEducation bilingual intercultural education programs (limited)
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Northern Tepehuán language hasAlternativeName Tepehuán de Durango
Northern Tepehuán language hasAlternativeName Tepehuán de Durango
this entity surface form: Tepehuán del Norte
Southern Tepehuán language hasAlternativeName Tepehuán de Durango