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Tepehuan, Northern

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: ntp

Population	6,200 (2005 census).
Region	South Chihuahua, Baborigame area.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 9
Alternate names	Tepehuán del Norte
Dialects	Related to Pima Bajo [pia], Tohono O’odham [ood], Southeastern Tepehuan [stp], Southwestern Tepehuan [twr].
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Sonoran, Tepiman
Language use	Some also use a Tarahumara variety.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%. Literacy rate in L2: 35%. Dictionary. NT: 1982.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; long words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Pastoralists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BARRETT, Ralph P.; BASCOM, Burton; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1959. "Instrumental collaboration on a Tepehuan (Uto-Aztecan) pitch problem."

BASCOM, Burton, author. 1959. "Tonomechanics of Northern Tepehuan."

BASCOM, Burton, author. 1965. Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman).

BASCOM, Burton, author. 1982. "Northern Tepehuan."  

BASCOM, Burton, author. 1994. "La conjugación de conjunciones en el tepehuán del norte."

BASCOM, Burton, researcher. 2011. Diccionario Tepehuán de Baborigame.

BASCOM, Burton, researcher. 2011. Gramática del Tepehuán del norte.

BASCOM, Burton; CASAD, Eugene H., authors. 2000. "’Mother’ in Northern Tepehuan."

BASCOM, Burton; LANGACKER, Ronald W., authors. 1986. "The syntax and origin of ga- in Northern Tepehuan."

LANGACKER, Ronald W., editor. 1982. Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches: Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 3.  

WILLETT, Elizabeth R.; WILLETT, Thomas L., authors. 2001. "Tepehuán."