Seri (language)
| Seri | ||
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Spoken in |
Mexico (coast of the state of Sonora ) | |
| speaker | approx. 800 (native speaker) | |
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| Official language in | no country | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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Seri (proper name: cmiique iitom ) is an isolated language in Central America . It occurs mainly in Mexico in the Sonora area. It is one of the indigenous American languages .
The basic word order of the Seri is subject-object-verb .
Kinship
There is the assumption that Seri belongs to the Hoka languages and forms a subgroup there with the extinct Salina [sln]. However, no evidence has yet been provided.
literature
- Mary B. Moser, Stephen A. Marlett: Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés . (PDF; 6.45 MB) Universidad de Sonora u. Plaza y Valdés Editores, Hermosillo (Sonora) 2005. (Dictionary in Spanish and English, with grammar in Spanish)
Web links
- Indian languages ( Memento from May 27, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
- North and Mesoamerican languages
- The states and territories of the world and their linguistic situation ( Memento of May 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive )