Tarahumara language
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| Tarahumara Raramúri |
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| Spoken in: | Mexico: Chihuahua | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Language family: | American Uto-aztecan Taracahita Tarahumara |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | none | |
| Regulated by: | Secretaría de Educación Pública | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | to be added | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Tarahumara language is a Mexican indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by around 70,000 Tarahumara or Raramúri people in the state of Chihuahua. Under the "Law of Linguistic Rights" it is recognized as a "national language" along with 62 other indigenous languages and Spanish which have the same "validity" in Mexico [1].
[edit] Varieties
The ethnologue counts 5 varieties of Tarahumara:
| Name | ISO-code | Location | Speakers |
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| Central Tarahumara | tar | Southwestern Chihuahua. | 55,000. 10,000 monolinguals. |
| Lowland Tarahumara | tac | Chihuahua. | 15,000 |
| Northern Tarahumara | thh | Chihuahua, towns of Santa Rosa Ariseachi, Agua Caliente Ariseachi, Bilaguchi, Tomochi, La Nopalera. | 300 |
| Southeastern Tarahumara | tcu | Chinatú, Chihuahua. | No estimate |
| Southwestern Tarahumara | twr | Chihuahua, town of Tubare | 100 (1983 SIL). |
[edit] References
- Miller, Wick. (1983). Uto-Aztecan languages. In W. C. Sturtevant (Ed.), Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 10, pp. 113-124). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution.
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