- Tarahumara language
Infobox Language
name=Tarahumara
nativename=Rarámuri
familycolor=American
region=Mexico :Chihuahua
fam2=Uto-aztecan
fam3=Taracahita
nation=One of 63 "national languages" ofMexico [http://www.sep.gob.mx/work/resources/LocalContent/62817/12/ley_gen_derechos_ling_indigenas_2.htm]
agency=Secretaría de Educación Pública
iso2=nai|iso3=tarThe Tarahumara language is a Mexican indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by around 70,000
Tarahumara or Raramúri people in the state ofChihuahua .Varieties
The ethnologue counts 5 varieties of Tarahumara:
Phonology
Tarahumara has five vowel qualities in addition to distinguishing vowel time: /i, e, a, o, u/. It also distinguishes between short and long vowels. The vocalic accent is phonemic. The consonant inventory includes:
It should also be noted:
* The affricate /IPA|t͡s/ is usually written also as
* The phoneme /IPA|j/ is practically always written as
* The phoneme /IPA|ʔ/ is sometimes written as< unicode|ʼ> .Media
Tarahumara-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station
XETAR , broadcasting fromGuachochi ,Chihuahua .References
* Miller, Wick. (1983). Uto-Aztecan languages. In W. C. Sturtevant (Ed.), "Handbook of North American Indians" (Vol. 10, pp. 113-124). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution.
* Burgess, Donald H. (1984) "Western Tarahumara," "Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 4: Southern Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches". Ed. Ronald W. Langacker. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics 56. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. Pages 1-149.
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