Guarijío

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Guarijío is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Guarijío people of northern Mexico, particularly in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Guarijío de Chihuahua 1
Guarijío de Sonora 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican language
Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language
belongsTo Cahitan languages
surface form: Cahita languages
contactLanguage Spanish
country Mexico
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Tepehuan people
surface form: Guarijío people
geographicDistribution Sierra Madre Occidental
surface form: Sierra Madre Occidental region
hasAlternativeName Guarijío
surface form: Guarijío de Chihuahua

Guarijío
surface form: Guarijío de Sonora

Warihío
hasCulturalAssociation Guarijío oral literature
Guarijío traditional religion
indigenous knowledge systems
hasDomainOfUse community events
home
ritual contexts
hasEndangermentCause language shift to Spanish
hasLanguagePolicyContext Mexican indigenous language policy
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity indigenous communities in Chihuahua
indigenous communities in Sonora
hasSpeakerTrend declining number of speakers
ISO639-3 var
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
languageStatus endangered language
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
recognizedAs national language of Mexico
region Northern Mexico
surface form: northern Mexico
relatedTo Mayo language
Yaqui language
spokenBy Tepehuan people
surface form: Guarijío people
spokenIn Chihuahua
Mexico
Sonora
spokenInMunicipality Guazapares Municipality
surface form: Chínipas Municipality

Guazapares Municipality
Quiriego Municipality
Álamos Municipality
subfamily Cahita branch
threatenedBy Spanish language dominance
usedFor daily communication in some communities
oral tradition
traditional ceremonies
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Guarijío hasAlternativeName Guarijío
this entity surface form: Guarijío de Chihuahua
Guarijío hasAlternativeName Guarijío
this entity surface form: Guarijío de Sonora
Uto-Aztecan includesLanguage Guarijío