Mayo language

Mayo
Spoken in	Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico
Native speakers	40,000  (date missing)
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Taracahitic Cáhita Mayo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mfy

Mayo is an Uto-Aztecan language. It is spoken by about 40,000 people, the Mexican Mayo or Yoreme Indians, who live in the South of the Mexican state of Sonora and in the North of the neighboring state of Sinaloa. Under the "Law of Linguistic Rights" it is recognized as a "national language" along with 62 other indigenous languages and Spanish which have the same validity in Mexico.

The Mayo language is partially intelligible with the Yaqui language and the division between the two language is more politically founded in the historic division between Yaqui and Mayo peoples than it reflects linguistic relations.

Programming in both Mayo and Yaqui is carried by the CDI's radio station XEETCH, broadcasting from Etchojoa, Sonora.

Morphology

Mayo is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

External links

• The ethnologues report on Mayo

References

• Collard, Howard and Elisabeth Scott Collard, Vocabulario Mayo, Vocabularios Indigenas Marianno Silva y Aceves. Num. 6. 1962
• Aguilar Zeleny, Alejandro S. "Los mayos" Etnografía contemporánea de los pueblos indígenas de México. Región Noroeste Instituto Nacional Indigenista 1995 México
• Acosta, Roberto Apuntes históricos sonorenses: la conquista temporal y espiritual del Yaqui y del Mayo Imprenta Aldina,. Mèxico (1a. ediciòn) Gobierno del Estado de Sonora 1983 México
• Hagberg, Larry "Stress and length in mayo." In William Shipley (ed.), In honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native Essays in Honor to Mary Hass Mouton 1989 Halle
• Lionnet, Andres S.J. Los elementos de la lengua cahita (yaqui-mayo) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1977 México
• Spicer, Edward Holland "The yaqui and the mayo" R. Wauchope, editor: Handbook of Middle American Indians. Vol 8 University of Texas Press 1969 Austin
• Hagberg, Larry and José Luis Moctezuma Zamarrón. 2001. "Investigaciones sobre la lengua mayo." In José Luis Moctezuma Zamarrón and Jane H. Hill (eds), Avances y balances de lenguas yutoaztecas; homenaje a Wick R. Miller p. 195-206. Serie Lingüístoca. Mexico, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Historia.