Mazahua language
| Jñatio | ||
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| speaker | about 137,000 people | |
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| Official language in | National language in Mexico
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Mazahua (Jñatio) is an indigenous language in Mexico or two closely related languages, spoken by the Mazahua ethnic group . It belongs to the family of Otomangue languages.
According to the 2010 census, Mazahua is spoken by around 137,000 people, particularly in the Ixtlahuaca Valley (valle de Ixtlahuaca) on the border between the states of México and Michoacán . SIL International divides Mazahua into two individual languages.
literature
- Amador Hernández, Maricela (1976): Gramática del mazahua de San Antonio Pueblo Nuevo , Tesis de licenciatura, México: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
- Escalante Hernández, Roberto (1990): Glotocronología de los dialectos mazahuas, Quadrivium 2, 77-78.
- Knapp Ring, Michael Herbert (1996): Fonología del mazahua , Tesis de licenciatura, México: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
- Jacques Soustelle [1937] (1992): La familia lingüística Otomí-Pame de México Central , Fondo de Cultura Económica, México DF, ISBN 968-16-4116-7 .
- Knapp Ring, Michael Herbert (2010): La nasalidad en mazahua: diacronía y sincronía , En Entre cuerdas y velo: Estudios fonológicos de lenguas otomangues. Herrera Zendejas, Esther. (ed.). México: El Colegio de México, pp.11-33.