Cora

E79964

Mesoamerican language Uto-Aztecan language indigenous language

Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mesoamerican language → Uto-Aztecan language → indigenous language →
basicWordOrder	SOV →
belongsToMacroArea	North America →
countryOfficialLanguageAlongside	Spanish (de facto national language of Mexico) →
culturalRegion	Sierra Madre Occidental →
ethnicGroup	Cora people →
geographicDistribution	western Mexico →
hasAlternativeName	Náayeri language →
hasDialect	Jesús María Cora → Mesa del Nayar Cora → Presidio de los Reyes Cora → Rosarito Cora → San Francisco Cora → Santa Teresa Cora →
hasGlottocode	cora1244 →
hasMorphologicalFeature	complex aspect and mood marking → rich verbal morphology →
hasPhonologicalFeature	tone or pitch accent distinctions →
hasSociolinguisticFeature	intergenerational transmission declining in some communities →
ISO639-3Code	crn →
languageEndangermentFactors	shift to Spanish →
languageFamily	Uto-Aztecan →
languagePolicyStatus	recognized indigenous language of Mexico →
languageStatus	vulnerable →
linguisticTypology	agglutinative language →
recognizedBy	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI) →
relatedTo	Huichol language →
spokenBy	Cora people →
spokenInCountry	Mexico →
spokenInRegion	Nayarit NERFINISHED → Sierra del Nayar →
subfamily	Corachol →
usedFor	everyday communication within Cora communities → oral literature → traditional ritual speech →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Proto-Uto-Aztecan →	hasDescendant
Nayarit →	hasIndigenousGroup
Southern Uto-Aztecan →	hasLanguage
Uto-Aztecan →	includesLanguage
Pochutec →	isRelatedTo
Tepehuan →	neighboringGroup