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Amuzgo is an Oto-Manguean language spoken in the Costa Chica region of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca by about
44,000 speakers. Like other Oto-Manguean languages, Amuzgo is a tonal language. From syntactical point of view Amuzgo can
be considered as an active language. The name Amuzgo is claimed to be a Nahuatl exonym but its meaning is shrouded in controversy;
multiple proposals have been made, including [amoʃ-ko amoʃ-ko] 'moss-in'. A significant percentage of the Amuzgo speakers
are monolingual; the remainder also speak Spanish. Four varieties of Amuzgo are officially recognized by the governmental
agency, the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI). They are: (i) Northern Amuzgo (amuzgo del norte, commonly known
as Guerrero or Xochistlahuaca Amuzgo); (ii) Southern Amuzgo (amuzgo del sur, heretofore classified as a subdialect of Northern
Amuzgo); (iii) Upper Eastern Amuzgo (amuzgo alto del este, commonly known as Oaxaca Amuzgo or San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo); (iv)
Lower Eastern Amuzgo (amuzgo bajo del este, commonly known as Ipalapa Amuzgo). These varieties are very similar, but there
is a significant difference between western varieties (Northern and Southern) and eastern varieties (Upper Eastern and Lower
Eastern), as revealed by recorded text testing done in the 1970s. Three dictionaries have been published for Upper Eastern
Amuzgo in recent years. For Northern Amuzgo, no dictionary has yet been published, yet it too is very actively written. Lower
Eastern Amuzgo and Southern Amuzgo (spoken in Huixtepec, for example) are still not well documented, but work is underway.
While the Mixtecan subdivision may indeed be the closest to Amuzgo within Oto-Manguean, earlier claims that Amuzgo is part
of it have been contested. |
Names (more)[en] Amuzgo, San Pedro Amuzgos |
Language type : Living
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