Amuzgo language
| Tzañcue, ñoomnda | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
Mexico | |
| speaker | about 50,000 people | |
| Linguistic classification |
|
|
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | National language in Mexico
|
|
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
|
| ISO 639 -2 |
- |
|
| ISO 639-3 |
- |
|
Amuzgo (Tzañcue, ñoomnda) is an indigenous language in Mexico or four closely related languages, spoken by the Amuzgo ethnic group . It belongs to the family of Otomangue languages.
According to the 2010 census, Amuzgo is spoken by over 50,000 people on the Costa Chica in the states of Guerrero (ñoomnda, 45,889 speakers) and Oaxaca (tzañcue, 5,203 speakers). SIL International divides the Amuzgo into four individual languages.
Like the other Otomangue languages, Amuzgo is a tonal language , which means that the pitch or course of the tone used to pronounce a syllable within a word is so important that a change in that one word can give it a new meaning.
literature
- Thomas C. Smith, Fermin Tapia: Amuzgo como lengua activa. In: Paulette Levy (ed.): Del Cora al Maya Yucateco: estudios lingüisticos sobre algunas lenguas indigenas mexicanas . UNAM, Ciudad de México 2002.
- Cloyd Stewart, Ruth D. Stewart (compilers): Diccionario Amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos Oaxaca . Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, Coyoacán (DF) 2000.
- L. Fermín Tapia García: Diccionario amuzgo-español: El amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca . Plaza y Valdés Editores, Ciudad de México 1999.
- L. Fermín Tapia García: Diccionario amuzgo-español. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Ciudad de México 2000.