Ethnologue.com home

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
16th edition

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
US$ 100.00
Add to cart

Preview print edition


Most Recent
SIL Publications


Reduced Price SIL Publications


ABOUT SSL CERTIFICATES
Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Pame, Northern

Pame, Northern

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3pmq

Population  5,620 (2000).
Region  San Luis Potosí, Ciudad del Maíz, Alaquines, Tamasopo, Rayón Municipalities.
Language map  Mexico, reference number 31
Alternate names   Pame del Norte, Xi’iuy
Dialects  10%–15% intelligibility with Santa María Acapulco; 87% intelligibility with Alaquines by La Palma.
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Otopamean, Pamean
Language use  Also use some Spanish.
Language development  Dictionary.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  2 to 6 years of primary school in the 2 towns. SVO, pitch-accent. Agriculturalists: banana.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. North Pame Verb Paradigms.

Anonymous. 2011. Pedagogical Grammar.

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris, researcher. 2011. Pame Comparative Vocabulary pmq.

BERTHIAUME, Scott C., author. 2000. Nasalization in Northern Pame.

BERTHIAUME, Scott C., author. 2003. A phonological grammar of Northern Pame.

BERTHIAUME, Scott Charles, author. 2012. A Phonological Grammar of Northern Pame.  Available online

OLSON, Donald, other. 2011. Types of Alternation in Pame Stems.  Available online

OLSON, Donald, other. Available: 2011; Created: 1954. Person-Aspect Morphemes of Pame Verbs.  Available online

OLSON, Donald, researcher. 2011. A New Rope.

OLSON, Donald, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1951. Fifty Pame Imperatives.  Available online

OLSON, Donald, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1952. Person-Tense Indicators of Class I Verbs in Pame.  Available online

WEITLANER, Robert, researcher. 2011. Vocabulario Pame pmq.