Tepehuán (Tepehuano) is the name of three closely related languages of the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, all spoken in northern Mexico . The language is called O'otham by its speakers.
4-664: Northern Tepehuán is spoken by about 10,000 people (2020 census) in several settlements in Guadalupe y Calvo and Guachochi , Chihuahua , as well as in the north of Durango . Southern Tepehuán is spoken by about 45,000 people, about equally divided into: Southern Tepehuán coexists with the Mexicanero language ; there is some intermarriage between the two ethnic groups, and a number of speakers are trilingual in Mexicanero, Tepehuán and Spanish . Tepehuán-language programming
8-621: A velar consonant. The following is representative of the Southeastern dialect of Tepehuan. /v/ is sometimes realized as [ f ] in word-final position. /l/ appears only in loanwords from Spanish. Northern Tepehuan: Southeastern Tepehuan: This article related to the Indigenous languages of the Americas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Guadalupe y Calvo Municipality Guadalupe y Calvo
12-584: 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. Nasal consonants /n, ɲ/ become [ ŋ ] when preceding
16-417: Is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua , in northern Mexico . The municipal seat lies at Guadalupe y Calvo . The municipality covers an area of 9,165.1 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 53,499, up from 51,854 as of 2005. As of 2010, the town of Guadalupe y Calvo had a population of 5,816. Other than the town of Guadalupe y Calvo, the municipality had 1,416 localities,
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