Purépecha (language)

Purépecha (Phorhépecha)
Spoken in	Mexico
speaker	approximately 136,000
Linguistic ; classification	isolated language Purépecha ;
Official status
Official language in	National language in Mexico
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tsz (actual Purépecha); pua (western highlands Purépecha);

Distribution of Purépecha in the Mexican state of Michoacán

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

Mary LeCron Foster: The Tarascan language . University of California Press, Berkeley 1969.