Cora

E79964

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

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Label Occurrences
Cora canonical 12

Statements (38)

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
surface form: western Mexico
hasAlternativeName Náayeri language
hasDialect Jesús María Cora
Mesa del Nayar Cora
Presidio de los Reyes Cora
Santa Teresa Cora
surface form: 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
surface form: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI)
relatedTo Huichol language
spokenBy Cora people
spokenInCountry Mexico
spokenInRegion Nayarit
Sierra del Nayar
subfamily Corachol
usedFor everyday communication within Cora communities
oral literature
traditional ritual speech
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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