Chichimeca Jonaz language
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| Chichimeca Jonaz Úza |
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| Spoken in: | Mexico | |
| Region: | Guanajuato, | |
| Total speakers: | <200 | |
| Language family: | American Oto-Manguean Oto-Pame Chichimeca Jonaz |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | pei | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Chichimeca Jonaz language is an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by around 200 Chichimeca Jonaz people in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The Chichimeca Jonaz language belongs to the Oto-Pamean branch of the Oto-Manguean linguistic family. Chichimeca Jonaz is a tonal language and distinguish high and low level tones (Suaréz 1983, pg 51).
[edit] References
- Suaréz, Jorge A. (1983). The Mesoamerian Indian Languages, Cambridge Languages Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22834-4. OCLC 8034800.
- Lastra de Suárez, Yolanda (1984). "Chichimeco Jonaz", in Munro S. Edmonson (Volume ed.), with Patricia A. Andrews: Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 2: Linguistics, Victoria Reifler Bricker (General Editor), Austin: University of Texas Press, pp.20-43. ISBN 0-292-77593-8. OCLC 10207920.
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