Jalisco, Nayarit, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí
United States: La Habra, California; Houston, Texas
Ethnicity
Huichols
Native speakers
60,000 (2020 census)[2]
Language family
Uto-Aztecan
Corachol
Huichol
Official status
Regulated by
Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
hch
Glottolog
huic1243
ELP
Huichol
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The Huichol language (Huichol: Wixárika) 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, San Luis Potosí, Nayarit, Zacatecas, and Durango, mostly in Jalisco.
United States: La Habra, California; Houston, Texas. Under the 2003 Law on Indigenous Language Rights, the indigenous languages of Mexico along with Spanish are recognized as "national languages".[3]
In regard to language typology, the language has switch-reference, is highly polysynthetic and verbs may consist of as many as 20 different morphemes.[4]
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,[5] and the first volume of the reference grammar was published in 2006.
^Iturrioz 2004:153
^Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.
^Leyco, Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas
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