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Otomi, Estado de México

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3ots

Population  10,000 (1990 census). 300 monolinguals.
Region  State of Mexico.
Language map  Western Central Mexico, reference number 48
Alternate names   Hñatho, Otomí de San Felipe Santiago, Otomí del Estado de México, State of Mexico Otomi
Dialects  San Felipe Santiago Otomí. 73% intelligibility with Mezquital Otomi [ote] (most similar).
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Otopamean, Otomian, Otomi
Language development  NT: 1975.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  VOS; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists: maize. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ANDREWS, Henrietta, author. 1955. "Otomi place-names in the state of Mexico."

ANDREWS, Henrietta, author. 1972. Rhetorical questions in Otomí of the State of Mexico (San Felipe Santiago).

ANDREWS, Henrietta, author. 1993. The Function of Verb Prefixes in Southwestern Otomí.  Available for purchase

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1954. "Palabras prestadas del español en el dialecto otomí."

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1960. "Some revisions of Proto-Otomi consonants."

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1963. "El limosnero y otros cuentos en otomí."

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1965. The reconstruction of Otopamean (Mexico).

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1969. "Los numerales uno a diez en los idiomas otopameanos."

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

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1984. Algunas diferencias entre la narración oral y la narración escrita, con referencia a una muestra en el otomí del Estado de México.  Available online