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Mazahua, Central

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: maz

Population	350,000 (1993 SIL).
Region	West and northwest state of Mexico.
Language map	Western Central Mexico, reference number 41
Dialects	Atlacomulco-Temascalcingo, Santa María Citendejé-Banos, San Miguel Tenoxtitlán. The Atlacomulco-Temascalcingo dialect uses different kinship terms, has phonological differences, grammatical variation among towns. 85%–100% intelligibility among dialects.
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Otopamean, Otomian, Mazahua
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 35%. NT: 1970.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO, (usually VS or VO); short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Pastoralists; peasant agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bartholomew, Doris A. 1975. "Some morphophonemic rules in Mazahua."

Pike, Eunice V. 1951. "Tonemic-intonemic correlation in Mazahua (Otomi)."

Spotts, Hazel. 1953. "Vowel harmony and consonant sequences in Mazahua (Otomi)."

Spotts, Hazel. 1954-55. "Mazahua place names."

Spotts, Hazel. 1956. "Some post-conquest changes in Mazahua."

Stewart, Donald, Shirley Stewart, and Hazel Spotts. 1954. Vocabulario mazahua.