16th edition

US$ 100.00

Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Amuzgo, Guerrero

Amuzgo, Guerrero

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: amu

Population	23,000 (1990 census). 10,000 monolinguals (1990 census).
Region	Southeast Guerrero, Xochistlahuaca municipality, Zacoalpan, Cochoapa, Huehuetonoc, Tlacoachistlahuaca, Guadalupe Victoria, Cozoyoapan, Huistepec, and Rancho del Cura. Santa Catarina River separates Guerrero variety from Oaxaca varieties.
Language map	Western Central Mexico, reference number 93
Alternate names	Nomndaa, Ñomndaa
Dialects	Most towns in Guerrero undertand the Amuzgo spoken in Xochistlahuaca.
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Amuzgoan
Language use	Vigorous. Learned by Spanish, Nahuatl, and Mixtecs living among them. All domains: written form in religion, schools, some local adminstration, business. All ages. Positive attitude.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10% adults, 15% children. Literacy rate in L2: 30% adults; 80% children. 5,000 readers, 500 can write. Bilingual school system grades 1 to 6. Radio programs. Videos. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1973–2001.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Many young people leave the area to find work. VSO; short word, affixes, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists. Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BAUERNSCHMIDT, Amy, author. 1965. "Amuzgo syllable dynamics."

BUCK, Marjorie J., author. 1969. Creative writers among new literates.

BUCK, Marjorie J., author. 1970. Evaluation of Amuzgo pre-primer.

BUCK, Marjorie J., author. 1984. Syntactic and functional criteria for the classification of adverbs in Guerrero Amuzgo.  

BUCK, Marjorie J., author. 1986. Teaching proofreading to Amuzgo language helpers.

COWAN, George M., author. 1970. "The monolingual approach to studying Amuzgo."

COWAN, George M., author. 2003. "The monolingual approach to studying Amuzgo."

COWAN, George M., researcher. 2011. Examples of Amuzgo Whistled Speech.  

HART, Helen L., author. 1957. "Hierarchical structuring of Amuzgo grammar."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1966. "On linguistic affinities of Amuzgo."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1966. "The linguistic affinities of Amuzgo."

LONGACRE, Robert E.; MILLON, René, authors. 1961. "Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan vocabularies: a preliminary cultural analysis."

LÓPEZ C., Barcimeo; ROBINSON, Gerald G., authors. 1999. Patrones del uso plantas medicinales entre los Amuzgos del estado de Guerrero, México.  

STEWART, Cloyd; STEWART, Ruth; WATERHOUSE, Viola, authors. 2011. Linguistic Interference in Amuzgo.

WILLIAMS, Cindy, author. 2005. "An analysis of Amuzgo nominal tone."

Vernacular Publications

¿Ljo' mach'ee Tito?. 2011.  

¿Ljoʼ machʼee Tito?. n.d.  

A tinecwaʼnnaʼ numeroʼ. 1954.

antseʔnaʔ. 1952.  

Cartilla Amuzga de Guerrero. 1972.  

Chiuu macaⁿnaʼ na nncʼom canchʼioo. 2001.  

Cjaaya tsjoom. 1972.  

Cuaderno de trabajo; Amuzgo de Guerrero. 1972.  

Cwa calaʼnaaⁿya númeroʼ. 1968.

Cwa cala'naaⁿya número'. 2007.  

Cwentooʼ cantsaa na jndyuu ncʼa. 1972.

Cwentooʼ ndaaluee. 1972.

Cwentooʼ tsʼaⁿ na tiñeʼcatsʼaa tsʼiaaⁿ. 1977.

Cwentooʼ tyochiʼ. 1973.

Cwentooʼ we canom = Lo que me sucedió con dos burros . 1972.  

Cwentooʼ xioomʼ. 1975.  

El Alfabeto Amuzgo de Guerrero. 1973.  

HISTORIA 'NAAⁿ' 'NDYEE TS'Aⁿ = El cuento de un campesino, un rico y un maestro . 1984.  

Leisiom ñomndaa na nntsei'naaⁿ' ts'aⁿ' ndo' na nntseiljeiⁿ. 2011.  

Leisiom ñomndaa na nntseiʼnaaⁿʼ tsʼaⁿ ndoʼ na nntseiljeiⁿ. n.d.

Leisiom ñomndaa na nntsei'naaⁿ' ts'aⁿ ndo' na nntseiljeiⁿ; Amuzgo de Guerrero. 2009.

Ljeii ñomndaa. 1965.

Ljeii ñomndaa. 1979.  

Luantsa Cwentaa' Ndyuaa Sndaa'. 1988.

Meincoʼ ñequio nnʼaⁿ waⁿʼaⁿ. 1978.  

Pre-cartilla amuzgo. 1952.  

Pronombres personales en amuzgo y español. 1973.

Quioo'xquie Na Nntseincuii. 1985.  

Sndaaʼ. 1972.  

Sʼom tʼuiiʼ ñequio sʼom jnda̱a̱. 1995.  

Ts'iaaⁿ na mach'ee nacho. 2008.  

Tsʼianⁿ na machʼee Nacho. 1965.

Tsom lawantsa. 1986.

welo ñequio wela. 1978.  

Welo ñequio wela. 2012.