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Otomi, Mezquital

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3ote

Population  100,000 in Mexico (1990 census). 100 in North Carolina, USA.
Region  Hidalgo, Mezquital Valley; Florida, USA. Also in United States.
Language map  Western Central Mexico, reference number 49
Alternate names   Hñahñu, Otomí del Valle del Mezquital
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Otopamean, Otomian, Otomi
Language development  Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1970.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Pastoralists: sheep, goats; swidden agriculturalists: maize. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ANDREWS, Enriqueta, compiler. 1950. Vocabulario otomí de Tasquillo, Hidalgo.

ARROYO S., Victor Manuel; WALLIS, Ethel E., authors. 1955. Elementos de gramatica otomí.

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1968. "Concerning the elimination of nasalized vowels in Mezquital Otomi."

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1973. "Otomi dependent clauses."

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1979. Review of: Otomi parables, folktales, and jokes, H. Russell Bernard and Jesús Salinas Pedraza, editors.

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris, author. 2004. "Notas sobre la gramática del hñähñu (otomí)."

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris, author. 2010. "Notas sobre la gramática del hñähñu (otomí)."  Available online

HERNÁNDEZ CRUZ, Luis; VICTORIA TORQUEMADA, Moisés, compilers; SINCLAIR CRAWFORD, Donaldo, consultant. 2004. Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo.

HERNÁNDEZ CRUZ, Luis; VICTORIA TORQUEMADA, Moisés, compilers; SINCLAIR CRAWFORD, Donaldo, consultant. 2010. Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo.  Available online

HESS, H. Harwood, author. 1962. The syntactic structure of Mezquital Otomí.

HESS, H. Harwood, author. 1968. The syntactic structure of Mezquital Otomi.

HESS, Hernán, compiler. 1956. Diccionario otomí­ del Mezquital-español-inglés.

LANIER, Nancy, author. 1968. "Three structural layers in Mezquital Otomí clauses."

LANIER, Nancy; MANUEL ARROYO, Víctor; WALLIS, Ethel Emilia, compilers. 1956. Diccionario castellano-otomí, otomí-castellano.

MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1968. "Number names in four languages of Mexico."

PIKE, Kenneth L.; SINCLAIR, Donald, authors. 1948. "The tonemes of Mezquital Otomi."

WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1953. "Problemas de aculturación implícitos en la educación indígena del otomí del Mezquital."

WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1954. "Toponimia otomí del Valle del Mezquital."

WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1956. "Simulfixation in aspect markers of Mezquital Otomi."

WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1956. "Sociolinguistics in relation to Mezquital Otomi transition education."

WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1964. "Mezquital Otomi verb fusion."

WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1968. "The word and the phonological hierarchy of Mezquital Otomi."

WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1970. "The trimodal structure of a folk poem."

Vernacular Publications

Boletin Otomi. 1951.

Hanja t'ofo ra hñähñu. 2004.

Lecciones de lectura y escritura. 1993.

Nuya jatˀi bi hoki ya n̄ą̌hn̄ų́. 1953.

ra bĭndá ˀǒ̶ní. 1951.

Ra o̱ni. 1953.

Ya zi tˀu̱. 1953.