Purépecha (language)
Purépecha (Phorhépecha) | ||
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Spoken in |
Mexico | |
speaker | approximately 136,000 | |
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Official status | ||
Official language in | National language in Mexico | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
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Purépecha ( Phorhépecha , also Taraskish ) is an isolated indigenous language of North America . It is mainly found in the Mexican state of Michoacán and is spoken by around 136,000 Purépecha .
The dialectal differences are relatively large, especially the highland dialects have only 70% lexical agreement with the main dialect.
Individual evidence
literature
- Mary LeCron Foster: The Tarascan language . University of California Press, Berkeley 1969.