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The Huichol language is an indigenous language of Mexico which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language family. It is spoken by
the ethnic group widely known as the Huichol (self-designation Wixaritari), whose mountainous territory extends over portions
of the Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Durango, mostly in Jalisco. Under the 2003 law of language rights, the indigenous
languages of Mexico along with Spanish are recognized as national languages. In regard to language typology, the language
has switch-reference, is about as agglutinative as any language in the world (a verb in Huichol can have more than 20 morphemes),
and is incorporating. Areally, it does not belong to the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area—contrary to old proposals. In recent
years, at least two teaching grammars for Huichol have been produced in Mexico for nonnative speakers. In addition, a project
to produce a reference grammar and dictionary of Huichol has been underway since the 1980s, conducted by a team of investigators
in the Department of Indigenous Languages at the University of Guadalajara, and the first volume of the reference grammar
was published in 2006. |
Names (more)[br] Houitcholeg[de] Huichol-Sprache [en] Huichol language [eo] Viĉola lingvo [fr] Huichol [nl] Huichol [no] Huichol [qu] Wichol simi [ru] Уичоль [es] Idioma huichol |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : hchLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hchhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:hch More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: hchFreebase ISO 639-3 : hch GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |