Otomi, Mezquital
A language of Mexico
| 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, Henrietta. 1950. Vocabulario otomí de Tasquillo, Hidalgo.
Arroyo S., Victor Manuel and Ethel Wallis. 1955. Elementos de gramatica otomí.
Bartholomew, Doris A. 1968. "Concerning the elimination of nasalized vowels in Mezquital Otomi."
Bartholomew, Doris. 1973. "Otomi dependent clauses."
Hess, H. Harwood. 1956. Diccionario otomí del Mezquital-español-inglés.
Hess, H. Harwood. 1962. The syntactic structure of Mezquital Otomí.
Hess, H. Harwood. 1968. The syntactic structure of Mezquital Otomi.
Lanier, Nancy. 1968. "Three structural layers in Mezquital Otomí clauses."
Merrifield, William R. 1968. "Number names in four languages of Mexico."
Sinclair, Donald and Kenneth L. Pike. 1948. "The tonemes of Mezquital Otomi."
Wallis, Ethel E. 1954-55. "Toponimia otomí del Valle del Mezquital."
Wallis, Ethel E. 1956. "Simulfixation in aspect markers of Mezquital Otomi."
Wallis, Ethel E. 1956. "Sociolinguistics in relation to Mezquital Otomi transition education."
Wallis, Ethel E. 1964. "Mezquital Otomi verb fusion."
Wallis, Ethel E. 1968. "The word and the phonological hierarchy of Mezquital Otomi."
Wallis, Ethel E. 1970. "The trimodal structure of a folk poem."
Wallis, Ethel E. and Nancy Lanier, compilers. 1956. Diccionario castellano-otomí, otomí-castellano.
Vernacular Publications
Album del arte textil otomi = Nuya jatˀi bi hoki ya n̄ą̌hn̄ų́. 1953.
Lecciones de lectura y escritura. 1993.
Los Hijitos = Ya zi tˀu̱. 1953.

