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The Tepecano language is an extinct indigenous language of Mexico belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language-family. It was formerly
spoken by a small group of people in Azqueltán (earlier Atzqueltlán), Jalisco, a small village on the Río Bolaños in the far
northern part of the state, just east of the territory of the Huichol people. Most closely related to Southern Tepehuán of
the state of Durango, Tepecano was a Mesoamerican language and evinced many of the traits that define the Mesoamerican Linguistic
Area. So far as is known, the last speaker of Tepecano was Lino de la Rosa (born September 22, 1895), who was still living
as of February 1980. Research on Tepecano was first carried out by the American linguistic anthropologist John Alden Mason
in Azqueltán during the period 1911-13. This work led to the publication of a monographic grammatical sketch (1916) as well
as an article on native prayers in Tepecano that Mason had collected from informants (1918). Later field-research was conducted
by American linguist Dennis Holt in 1965 and 1979–80, but none of his results have so far been published. |
Names (more)[en] Tepecano language[es] Idioma tepecano |
Language type : Extinct
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : tepLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tephttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:tep More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: tepFreebase ISO 639-3 : tep GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |