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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; MOSER, Edward, authors. 1968. "Seri pottery."

BOWEN, Thomas; MOSER, Edward, authors. 1970. "Material and functional aspects of Seri instrumental music."

BOWEN, Thomas; MOSER, Edward, authors. 1970. "Seri headpieces and hats."

BOWEN, Thomas; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1995. "Seri."

FARRELL, Patrick; MARLETT, Stephen A.; PERLMUTTER, David M., authors. 1991. "Notions of subjecthood and switch reference: evidence from Seri."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Edward; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1980. "Seagrasses in Seri Indian culture."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1970. "Seri use of agave (century plant)."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1971. "Seri use of mesquite Prosopis glandulosa var torreyana."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1973. "Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) in the Gulf of California: Discovery of its nutritional value by the Seri Indians."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1974. "Columnar cacti in Seri Indian culture."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1974. "Seri Indian pharmacopoeia."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1976. "Seri Indian food plants: Desert subsistence without agriculture."

FELGER, Richard S.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1985. People of the desert and sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians.

HERRERA ASTORGA, Genaro G.; MARLETT, Stephen A.; MORENO HERRERA, F. Xavier, authors. 2005. "Illustrations of the IPA: Seri."  

HERRERA ASTORGA, Genaro G.; MARLETT, Stephen A.; MORENO HERRERA, F. Xavier, authors. 2007. "Seri."  

MARLETT, Cathy Moser, author. 2000. "A Desemboque childhood."

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1977. Loanword lengthening in Seri.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1977. The imperative morpheme in Seri.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1978. Aspects of Seri phonology.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1979. On the importance of morphophonemic alternation in phonological analysis.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1979. Personal and impersonal passives in Seri.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1979. The abstract consonant in Seri.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1981. The structure of Seri.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1984. "Compendio del idioma Seri."

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

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

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1987. The syllable structure of Seri.

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

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1993. Goals and indirect objects in Seri.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1994. One less crazy rule.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1997. Empty consonants in root-medial position.  

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

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2000. Quantification with ’all’ in Seri.  

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

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2002. Sinopsis del idioma seri.  

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

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

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2006. "La evolución del alfabeto seri."

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

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

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

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2008. "The phasal construction in Seri."  

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

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

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2009. "Los dos primeros listados léxicos de la lengua seri (siglo XIX)."

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2010. "A Place for Writing: Language Cultivation and Literacy in the Seri Community."  

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2010. "Semantic and syntactic subcategorization in Seri: recipients and addressees."

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2010. Round vowel and dorsal consonant epenthesis in Seri.  

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2011. Corrections to and clarifications of the Seri data in Greenberg & Ruhlen's An Amerind Etymological Dictionary.  

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2011. The Seris and the Comcaac: Sifting fact from fiction about the names and relationships.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1989. "Terminologia de parentesco seri."

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1992. "El desarrollo de clases nominales en seri."

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1993. Seri kinship terminology.

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1994. "Los números en seri."

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1994. Seri vowels and the obligatory contour principle.

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1994. Switch reference in Seri.

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1994. Vowel length in Seri possessed nouns.

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1996. Seri de Sonora.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1997. Los números en seri.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1997. Seri dictionary: People and kinship terms.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1998. "How Rabbit fooled Puma: a Seri text."

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1998. Seri dictionary: body parts, bodily processes, sickness and medicine.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1998. Seri dictionary: earth, sea, sky, time and weather.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1998. Seri dictionary: mammals.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1998. Aclaraciones sobre la ortografía seri.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1999. Seri dictionary: colors.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1999. Seri dictionary: plants.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1999. Seri kinship terminology.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 2000. Polar questions in Seri.  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 2000. Seri dictionary: sounds and speech.  

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

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., 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).  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., compilers. 2010. Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac = Diccionario seri-español-inglés .  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; STEMBERGER, Joseph P., authors. 1983. "Empty consonants in Seri."

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

MOSER, Edward, author. 1963. "Seri bands."

MOSER, Edward, author. 1968. "Two Seri myths."

MOSER, Edward, author. 1973. "Seri basketry."

MOSER, Edward, author. 1976. The Seris.  

MOSER, Edward; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1961. Seri-castellano castellano-seri.

MOSER, Edward; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1965. "Consonant-vowel balance in Seri (Hokan) syllables."

MOSER, Edward; WHITE, Richard S., authors. 1968. "Seri clay figurines."

MOSER, Mary B., author. 1964. "Seri blue."

MOSER, Mary B., author. 1970. "Seri elevated burials."

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

MOSER, Mary B., author. 1977. Articles in Seri.

MOSER, Mary B., author. 1978. "Switch reference in Seri."

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

Vernacular Publications

¿He zó haquiimetya?. 2007.

¿He zó ziicya?. 2008.

Cocsar íitong quih cöscóozza (Hablemos español). 1964.