Pame language

Pame language
Pame
Spoken in Mexico
Region San Luis Potosí, Puebla
Native speakers <10000  (date missing)
Language family
Oto-Manguean
  • Oto-Pame
    • Pame
Language codes
ISO 639-3 variously:
pbs – Central Pame
pmq – Northern Pam
pmz – Southern Pame

The Pame language is an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by around 10.000 Pame people in the state of San Luis Potosí. The Pame language belongs to the Oto-Pamean branch of the Oto-manguean linguistic family. The Ethnologue counts two living varieties of Pame: Central Pame[1] spoken in the town of Santa María Acapulco, and Northern Pame[2] spoken in communities from the north of Río Verde to the border with Tamaulipas. Pame languages are tonal and distinguish high and low level tones and a high-low contour tone(Suaréz 1983, pg 51).

Pame-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEANT-AM, based in Tancanhuitz de Santos, San Luis Potosí.

References

  • Suaréz, Jorge A, 1983, The Mesoamerican Indian Languages, Cambridge, CUP

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