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Huave, San Mateo del Mar

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: huv

Population	12,000 (1990 census). 1,800 monolinguals.
Region	Southeast coast, Oaxaca, San Mateo del Mar.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 119
Dialects	Very limited intelligibility of other Huave varieties; 88% with San Dionisio del Mar [hve].
Classification	Huavean
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 60%. Literacy rate in L2: 40%. Dictionary. NT: 1972–1996.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Their legend says they came from Central America. SVO; short words, affixes; nontonal. Fishermen; agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Pike, Kenneth L. and Milton Warkentin. 1961. "Huave: a study in syntactic tone with low lexical functional load."

Rensch, Calvin R. 1973. "Otomanguean isoglosses."

Stairs, Emily F. and Barbara E. Hollenbach. 1969. "Huave verb morphology."

Stairs, Emily F. and Barbara E. Hollenbach. 1981. "Gramática huave."

Stairs, Glenn and Emily F. Stairs, compilers. 1981. Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar.

Stairs, Glenn and Emily F. Stairs, compilers. 1983. Huave de San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca.

Warkentin, Milton and Clara Warkentin. 1952. Vocabulario huave.

Warkentin, Milton and Juan Olivares. 1947. "‘The holy bells’ and other Huave legends."

Vernacular Publications

Cuentos Huaves II ; Huave de San Mateo del Mar y español. 2004.

Cuentos Huaves II. 2006.  

Cuentos Huaves III ; Huave de San Mateo del Mar y español. 2004.

Cuentos Huaves III. 2006.