Western Rarámuri

E602600

Western Rarámuri is a principal regional variety of the Rarámuri (Tarahumara) language spoken by Indigenous communities in the Sierra Madre region of northern Mexico.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Western Rarámuri canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Rarámuri language variety
indigenous language variety
regional variety of a language
belongsTo indigenous languages of Mexico
closelyRelatedTo Central Rarámuri
Eastern Rarámuri
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Rarámuri
hasAlternativeName Rarámuri Occidental
linked to: Eastern Rarámuri

Tarahumara Occidental
linked to: Guarijío

Western Tarahumara
hasDomain community life in Rarámuri settlements
oral literature and storytelling
traditional ecological knowledge
hasLinguisticFeature SOV basic word order
rich verbal morphology
tonal contrasts absent
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Spanish is common
isEndangered true
ISO639-3 tar
isPrincipalVarietyOf Rarámuri language
Tarahumara language
languageBranch Tarahumaran languages
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
partOf Rarámuri language
Tarahumara language
region Sierra Madre Occidental
spokenBy Rarámuri people
Tarahumara people
spokenIn Chihuahua
Sierra Madre region
northern Mexico
linked to: Northern Mexico
status minority language in Mexico
subdivisionOf Tarahumara language
usedAlongside Spanish
usedIn daily communication in Rarámuri communities
oral tradition
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rarámuri language hasDialect Western Rarámuri
Ralamuli hasDialect Western Rarámuri
Central Rarámuri closelyRelatedTo Western Rarámuri
Eastern Rarámuri closelyRelatedTo Western Rarámuri