Huichol language
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| Huichol Vixaritari Vaniuqui, Vizaritari Vaniuki |
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| Spoken in: | Mexico: Nayarit, Zacatecas and Jalisco | |
| Total speakers: | 20.000 (1990) | |
| Language family: | American Uto-aztecan Corachol Huichol |
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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: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | hch | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Huichol language is an indigenous language of Mexico, belonging to the Uto-aztecan linguistic family. It is spoken by the ethnic group widely known as the Huichol who refer to themselves as Wixarika" , and who inhabit the northern Sierra of the Mexican states of Nayarit, Zacatecas and Jalisco. Huichol is a mesoamerican language and shows many of the traits defining the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. 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]. Huichol is a tonal language distinguishing high and low tone[1]
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[edit] Geographic Distribution
[edit] Genealogy
The closest relatives of the Huichol language is the Cora language together with which it forms the Coracholan subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan languages, also the Taracahitan group of languages containing among others the languages Tarahumara, Yaqui and Mayo is related to Huichol.
- General Uto-Aztecan
- Coracholan branch
- Huichol language
- Cora languages
- Coracholan branch
[edit] Phoneme Inventory
[edit] References
- ^ Suaréz, Jorge, 1983, The Mesoamerican Indian Languages, Cambridge, CUP, pg 51
- Joseph E. Grimes, 1959. "Huichol Tone and Intonation", International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 25, No. 4. (Oct., 1959), pp. 221-232.
- McIntosh, John B. 1945. "Huichol phonemes." International Journal of American Linguistics 11: 31-35
- José Luis Iturrioz Leza y Julio Ramírez de la Cruz, et. al., 2001, Gramática Didáctica del Huichol: Vol. I. Estructura Fonológica y Sistema de Escritura, Departamento de Estudios en Lenguas Indígenas-Universidad de Guadalajara – Secretaria de Educación Pública, Vol. 1,
