Tepehuán language
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| Tepehuán, Tepehuáno, Tepecano | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mexico | |
| Region: | Chihuahua, Durango | |
| Total speakers: | ~25,000 (All varieties) | |
| Language family: | Uto-Aztecan Southern Uto-Aztecan Sonoran Tepiman Tepehuán, Tepehuáno, Tepecano |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | stp | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Tepehuán is the name of three closely related languages of the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family, both spoken in Northern Mexico. The language is called O'otham
[edit] Northern Tepehúan
Northern Tepehuan is spoken by 8,000 Tepehuáno people (1990 census) in southern Chihuahua state.
[edit] Southern Tepehúan
Southern Tepehúan is divided into the southeastern and southwestern group. Southeastern Tepehúan is spoken by 9,937 people (2000 WCD) in the Mezquital Municipio of Durango state. Southern Tepehúan coexists with the Mexicanero nahuatl language, there is some intermarriage between the two ethnic groups and a number of speakers are trilingual in Mexicanero, Tepehuán and Spanish
Southwestern Tepehuán is spoken by around 8,187 (2000 WCD) people in Southwestern Durango.
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