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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

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E.; STAIRS, Emily F., authors. 1969. "Huave verb morphology."

HOLLENBACH, Elena E. de; STAIRS, Emily F., authors; BRAVO MAGAÑA, Javier, translator. 1981. "Gramática huave."  

OLIVARES, Juan; WARKENTIN, Milton, authors. 1947. "‘The holy bells’ and other Huave legends."

PIKE, Kenneth L.; WARKENTIN, Milton, authors. 1961. "Huave: a study in syntactic tone with low lexical functional load."

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1973. "Otomanguean isoglosses."

SCHARFE DE STAIRS, Emily Florence; STAIRS KREGER, Glenn Albert, compilers; COMONFORT LLAVE, Lorenzo; OLIVARES OVIEDO, Proceso; PONCE VILLANUEVA, Tereso, consultants. 1981. Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar.  

STAIRS, Emily F.; STAIRS, Glenn, compilers. 1983. Huave de San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca.

WARKENTIN, Clara; WARKENTIN, Milton, compilers. 1952. Vocabulario huave.

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.  

Micwenta coy y sampüy y noic coy y nop ndiüc. 1957.

Primera/segunda cartilla huave. 1956.  

sanateow nawiig. 1962.  

Tercera cartilla huave. 1957.