Huarijio language

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The Huarijio language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Huarijio people of northwestern Mexico, primarily in the Sierra Madre Occidental region.

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Huarijio language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
indigenous language
natural language
alternateName Guarijío
Guarijío de la Sierra
linked to: Guarijío

Guarijío del Río
linked to: Guarijío

Huarijío
Varohío
Warihío
closelyRelatedTo Tarahumara language
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Huarijio people
family Uto-Aztecan
hasDialect Highland Huarijio
Lowland Huarijio
hasDomain local flora and fauna terminology
traditional agriculture terminology
hasGrammaticalFeature case marking on nouns
postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
toneless phonology
influencedBy Spanish language
linked to: Spanish
ISO639-3 var
languageFamilyBranch Cahita–Tarahumaran
linked to: Tarahumaran
languageStatus endangered language
morphologicalType agglutinative language
nativeTo Chihuahua
Sonora
preservationEfforts bilingual education programs
community language documentation projects
region Sierra Madre Occidental
northwestern Mexico
spokenBy indigenous people of Mexico
spokenIn Huarijio communities along the Río Mayo basin
remote mountain villages in the Sierra Madre Occidental
subfamily Southern Uto-Aztecan
subjectTo language shift to Spanish
usedIn everyday communication within Huarijio communities
oral storytelling
traditional rituals
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Tarahumaran languages hasPart Huarijio language