Tarahumara language

E602598

The Tarahumara language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Rarámuri people of northern Mexico, particularly in the Sierra Madre Occidental region.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language
natural language
alternateName Raramuri NERFINISHED
Rarámuri language NERFINISHED
Tarahumara NERFINISHED
associatedWith Sierra Tarahumara NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Guarijío language NERFINISHED
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Rarámuri people NERFINISHED
glottologName Tarahumara NERFINISHED
hasDialect Central Tarahumara
Eastern Tarahumara NERFINISHED
Northern Tarahumara NERFINISHED
Southern Tarahumara NERFINISHED
Western Tarahumara NERFINISHED
hasEndonym Rarámuri ra'ícha
hasGlottocode tara1321
hasISO639-2Code tar
hasISO639-3Code tar
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish language NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone absent
influencedBy Spanish language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family NERFINISHED
languageStatus vulnerable
preservationEffort community-based language revitalization
region Chihuahua NERFINISHED
spokenBy Rarámuri people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico NERFINISHED
Sierra Madre Occidental NERFINISHED
northern Mexico
subfamily Southern Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED
Tarahumaran branch
subjectOf Bible translation
linguistic documentation projects
threatenedBy language shift to Spanish
typology agglutinative language
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
ritual practices
usedIn indigenous education programs
storytelling
traditional songs
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Rarámuri language alternateName Tarahumara language
Guarijío language isRelatedTo Tarahumara language
Tarahumaran languages hasPart Tarahumara language
Mayo language hasNeighboringLanguage Tarahumara language
Taracahitic languages hasMember Tarahumara language
Taracahitic languages hasMember Tarahumara language
this entity surface form: Lowland Tarahumara language
Taracahitic languages hasMember Tarahumara language
this entity surface form: Central Tarahumara language
Taracahitic languages hasMember Tarahumara language
this entity surface form: Northern Tarahumara language
Taracahitic languages hasMember Tarahumara language
this entity surface form: Southern Tarahumara language