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Pame, Central

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3pbs

Population  4,350 (1990 census).
Region  San Luis Potosí, Santa María Acapulco.
Language map  Mexico, reference number 30
Alternate names   Chichimeca, Pame de Santa María Acapulco, Pame del Centro
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Otopamean, Pamean
Language use  All ages.
Language development  Bible portions: 1953–1998.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO, pitch-accent, short words, affixes. Pastoralists; peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Gibson, Lorna F. 1954. "El sistema de parentesco pame."

Gibson, Lorna F. 1956. "Pame (Otomi) phonemics and morphophonemics."

Gibson, Lorna F. 1966. "The man who abandoned his wife: a Pame story."

Gibson, Lorna F. and Doris A. Bartholomew. 1979. "Pame noun inflection."

Gibson, Lorna F., Donald Olson, and Anne Olson. 1963. "Four Pame texts."

Olson, Donald. 1963. "Spanish loan words in Pame."