Tarahumara language

Rarámuri
Spoken in	Mexico
speaker	about 88,000 people
Linguistic classification	Uto-Aztec languages Southern Uto-Aztec languages Taracahita Tarahumara-Guarijío Tarahumara
Official status
Official language in	National language in Mexico
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	-

Chihuahua: The Tarahumara language area is shown in red.

Tarahumara (Rarámuri) is an indigenous language in northern Mexico , spoken by the Tarahumara ethnic group . It belongs to the Uto-Aztec languages .

Tarahumara is spoken by approximately 88,000 people in southwest Chihuahua state, according to the 2010 census . SIL International divides the Tarahumara into four individual languages ​​(of which the central Tarahumara with 55,000 speakers in 2000 is the most speaker).

Unlike the related Nahuatl , the Tarahumara does not have a vigesimal system , but a decimal system . The numbers up to ten are also not similar in these two languages.

literature

• Donald H. Burgess: Western Tarahumara . In: Ronald W. Langacker (Ed.): Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 4: Southern Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches . Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics 56. Dallas 1984, pp. 1-149.
• K. Simon Hilton: Diccionario Tarahumara . Instituto Linguistico de Verano, Tucson AZ 1993.
• Wick Miller: Uto-Aztecan languages . In: WC Sturtevant (Ed.): Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 10). Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 1983, pp. 113-124.
• Jose Luis Zamarron, Jane H. Hill: Avances y balances de lenguas yutoaztecas . Coleccion Cientifica, Cordoba 2001.

Web links

• Diccionario Español-Tarahumara . AULEX (México)
• Cómo contar en tarahumara central . (Tarahumara numbers)
• Hilton, Kenneth S. et al. Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tarahumara, Central: A language of Mexico . ethnologue.com