Northern Tepehuan language
| Tepehuán | |
|---|---|
| O'otham | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chihuahua, Durango |
| Ethnicity | Tepehuán |
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Native speakers
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36,000 (2010 census) |
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Uto-Aztecan
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| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: ntp – Northern Tepehuán stp – Southeastern Tepehuán tla – Southwestern Tepehuán tep – Tepecano |
| Glottolog | tepe1281 |
Tepehuán (Tepehuano) is the name of three closely related languages of the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, both spoken in northern Mexico. The language is called O'otham by its speakers.
Northern Tepehuán is spoken by about 8,000 Tepehuán people (2005 census) in the south of the state of Chihuahua and north of Durango.
Southern Tepehuán is divided into the southeastern and southwestern group.
The extinct Tepecano language appears to have been a variety of Southern Tepehuán.
Tepehuán-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio stations XEJMN-AM, broadcasting from Jesús María, Nayarit, and XETAR, based in Guachochi, Chihuahua.
Tepehuán is an agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.
The following is representative of the Northern dialect of Tepehuan
Northern Tepehuan has 6 vowels and 3 common diphthongs.
Northern Tepehuan:
Southeastern Tepehuan:
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