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Encyclopedia > Mexicanero
Mexicanero, Durango Aztec, Náhuat de Durango
Spoken in: Mexico 
Region: Durango(Towns of San Pedro Jícora and San Juan Buenaventura)
Total speakers: ~1000
Language family: Uto-Aztecan
 Southern Uto-Aztecan
  Aztecan
   Mexicanero, Durango Aztec, Náhuat de Durango
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: nln
ISO/FDIS 639-3: nln

Mexicanero is the name used by the speakers of the variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in southern Durango to refer to their language. It is a member of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family. It has around 1000 speakers in the remote towns of San Pedro Jícora and San Juan Buenaventura in the Mezquital municipality, where they coexist with speakers of Tepehuán. Mexicanero is one of the peripheral Nahuatl dialects. It uses the -lo suffix to express plurality of subject. Due to loss of certain syllables it has acquired phonemic stress. Durango (IPA pronunciation ) is one of the constituent states of Mexico. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Pre-contact distribution of Northern Uto-Aztecan languages (note: this map does not show the distribution in Mexico) The Uto-Aztecan (also Uto-Aztekan) is a Native American language family. ... Nahuatl ( [1] is a term applied to a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan [2] branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Nahuatl dialects and and dialect groupings The Uto Aztecan Nahuatl language can be grouped into two rough dialect continua, labelled the central and the peripheral dialects. ... Durango (IPA pronunciation ) is one of the constituent states of Mexico. ... Nahuatl ( [1] is a term applied to a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan [2] branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. ... Pre-contact distribution of Northern Uto-Aztecan languages (note: this map does not show the distribution in Mexico) The Uto-Aztecan (also Uto-Aztekan) is a Native American language family. ... Nahuatl dialects and and dialect groupings The Uto Aztecan Nahuatl language can be grouped into two rough dialect continua, labelled the central and the peripheral dialects. ...



 

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