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Seri

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: sei

Population	900 (2007 SIL).
Region	Sonora coast. 2 villages.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 6
Dialects	A few linguists have posited a relationship to Hokan.
Classification	Language isolate
Language development	Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1982.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Call themselves Comcáac, and their language Cmiique Iitom. SOV; prefixes and some suffixes, clitics; nontonal. Fishermen; craftsmen: ironwood carvings, basketry, necklaces.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bowen, Thomas and Edward Moser. 1968. "Seri pottery."

Bowen, Thomas and Edward Moser. 1970. "Material and functional aspects of Seri instrumental music."

Bowen, Thomas and Edward Moser. 1970. "Seri headpieces and hats."

Farrell, Patrick, Stephen A. Marlett and David M. Perlmutter. 1991. "Notions of subjecthood and switch reference: evidence from Seri."

Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1970. "Seri use of agave (century plant)."

Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1971. "Seri use of mesquite Prosopis glandulosa var torreyana."

Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1973. "Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) in the Gulf of California: Discovery of its nutritional value by the Seri Indians."

Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1974. "Columnar cacti in Seri Indian culture."

Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1974. "Seri Indian pharmacopoeia."

Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1976. "Seri Indian food plants: Desert subsistence without agriculture."

Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1985. People of the desert and sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians.

Felger, Richard S., Mary B. Moser, and Edward Moser. 1980. "Seagrasses in Seri Indian culture."

Marlett, Cathy Moser. 2000. "A Desemboque childhood."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1977. "Loanword lengthening in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1977. "The imperative morpheme in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1978. "Aspects of Seri phonology."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1979. "On the importance of morphophonemic alternation in phonological analysis."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1979. "Personal and impersonal passives in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1979. "The abstract consonant in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1981. The structure of Seri.

Marlett, Stephen A. 1984. "Compendio del idioma Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1984. "Personal and impersonal passives in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1984. "Switch-reference and subject raising in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1987. "The syllable structure of Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1990. "Person and number inflection in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1993. "Goals and indirect objects in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1994. "One less crazy rule."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1997. "Empty consonants in root-medial position."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2000. "Quantification with ’all’ in Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2000. "Why the Seri language is important and interesting."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2002. "Reanalysis of passive and negative prefixes in Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2002. Sinopsis del idioma seri.  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2005. "A typological overview of the Seri language."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2006. "El acento, la extrametricalidad y la palabra mínima en Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2006. "La evolución del alfabeto seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. 2006. "La situación sociolingüística de la lengua seri en 2006."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2007. "Bringing it home: the implications of documentation for a vibrant endangered language."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "Stress, extrametricality and the minimal word in Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "The implications of language documentation for an endangered but vibrant language community: a historical perspective."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "The implications of language documentation for an endangered but vibrant language community: a historical perspective."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "The phasal construction in Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "The Seri-Salinan connection revisited."

Marlett, Stephen A. and Joseph P. Stemberger. 1983. "Empty consonants in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. and Mary B. Moser. 1994. "Seri vowels and the obligatory contour principle."

Marlett, Stephen A. and Mary B. Moser. 1994. "Switch reference in Seri."

Marlett, Stephen A. and Mary B. Moser. 1994. "Vowel length in Seri possessed nouns."

Marlett, Stephen A. and Mary B. Moser. 2000. "Polar questions in Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen A. and Mary B. Moser. 2002. Presentación y análisis preliminar de 600 topónimos Seris [Presentation and preliminary analysis of 600 Seri toponyms].  

Marlett, Stephen A., F. Xavier Moreno Herrera and Genaro G. Herrera Astorga. 2005. "Illustrations of the IPA: Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen A., F. Xavier Moreno Herrera and Genaro G. Herrera Astorga. 2007. "Seri."  

Marlett, Stephen and Mary Moser. 1998. Aclaraciones sobre la ortografía seri.  

Moser, Edward and Mary B. Moser. 1961. Seri-castellano castellano-seri.

Moser, Edward and Mary B. Moser. 1965. "Consonant-vowel balance in Seri (Hokan) syllables."

Moser, Edward and Richard S. White. 1968. "Seri clay figurines."

Moser, Edward W. 1976, 2002. The Seris.  

Moser, Edward. 1962. "The two brothers who went away angry: a Seri legend."

Moser, Edward. 1963. "Seri bands."

Moser, Edward. 1968. "Two Seri myths."

Moser, Edward. 1973. "Seri basketry."

Moser, Mary B. 1964. "Seri blue."

Moser, Mary B. 1970. "Seri elevated burials."

Moser, Mary B. 1970. "Seri: from conception through infancy."

Moser, Mary B. 1977. "Articles in Seri."

Moser, Mary B. 1978. "Switch reference in Seri."

Moser, Mary B. 1988. "Seri history (1904): Two documents."

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1989. "Terminologia de parentesco seri."

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1992. "El desarrollo de clases nominales en seri."

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1993. "Seri kinship terminology."

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1994. "Los números en seri."

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1997. "Los números en seri."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1997. "Seri dictionary: People and kinship terms."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1998. "How Rabbit fooled Puma: a Seri text."

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1998. "Seri dictionary: body parts, bodily processes, sickness and medicine."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1998. "Seri dictionary: earth, sea, sky, time and weather."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1998. "Seri dictionary: mammals."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1999. "Seri dictionary: colors."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1999. "Seri dictionary: plants."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1999. "Seri kinship terminology."  

Moser, Mary B. and Stephen A. Marlett. 2000. "Seri dictionary: sounds and speech."  

Moser, Mary Beck and Stephen A. Marlett, compilers. 2005. Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricáana iitom (Diccionario Seri - Español - Inglés: con índices Español - Seri, Inglés - Seri y con gramática).  

Moser, Mary Beck and Stephen A. Marlett. 1996. Seri de Sonora.

Vernacular Publications

¿He zó haquiimetya?. 2007.

¿He zó ziicya?. 2008.