Tepehuán language
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Tepehuán (Tepehuano) is the name of three closely related languages of the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, all spoken in northern Mexico. The language is called O'otham by its speakers.
Internal classification
- Tepehuán
- Northern Tepehuán
- Southern Tepehuán
- Southeastern Tepehuán
- Southwestern Tepehuán
Northern Tepehuán
Northern Tepehuán is spoken by about 10,000 people (2020 census)[1] in several settlements in Guadalupe y Calvo and Guachochi, Chihuahua, as well as in the north of Durango.[2]
Southern Tepehuán
Southern Tepehuán is spoken by about 45,000 people,[1] about equally divided into:
- Southeastern Tepehuán in Mezquital Municipio in the state of Durango.
- Southwestern Tepehuán in southwestern Durango.
Southern Tepehuán coexists with the Mexicanero language; there is some intermarriage between the two ethnic groups, and a number of speakers are trilingual in Mexicanero, Tepehuán and Spanish.
Media
Tepehuán-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio stations XEJMN-AM, broadcasting from Jesús María, Nayarit, and XETAR, based in Guachochi, Chihuahua.
Morphology
Tepehuán is an agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.
Phonology
Northern Tepehuan
The following is representative of the Northern dialect of Tepehuan.[3]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link |
| Mid | Template:IPA link | ||
| Open | Template:IPA link |
Consonants
Nasal consonants /n, ɲ/ become Template:IPAblink when preceding a velar consonant.
Southern Tepehuan
The following is representative of the Southeastern dialect of Tepehuan.[4]
Vowels
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link |
| Mid | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | |
| Open | Template:IPA link | ||
Consonants
/v/ is sometimes realized as Template:IPAblink in word-final position. /l/ appears only in loanwords from Spanish.
Sample Tepehuan Text
Northern Tepehuan:
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Southeastern Tepehuan:
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Further reading
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