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Tepehuan, Southeastern

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: stp

Population	10,600 (2005 census).
Region	Southeast Durango, Mezquital Municipality. Santa María Ocotán is cultural and religious center.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 25
Alternate names	Tepehuán del Sureste, Tepehuano
Dialects	78% intelligibility with Southwestern Tepehuan [tla].
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Sonoran, Tepiman, Southern Tepehuan
Language use	Vigorous. Learned by Durango Nahuatl speakers due to intermarriage. Their children usually speak both languages. All domains. All ages. Positive attitude.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%–7%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%. Taught in primary schools. Videos. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 2005.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	They go to the Pacific coast for temporary labor in the spring. VSO, VOS; long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal. Pastoralists; peasant agriculturalists. Christian, traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BLACK, H. Andrew, author. 1993. Constraint-ranked derivation: a serial approach to optimization.

BLACK, H. Andrew, author. 2006. Constraint-ranked derivation: a serial approach to optimization.  

WILLETT, Elizabeth R., author. 1979. Reduplication and accent in Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Elizabeth R., author. 1981. Noun phrase components in Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Elizabeth R., author. 1981. Word-shortening in Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Elizabeth R., author. 1985. "Palatalization in Southeastern Tepehuan."

WILLETT, Elizabeth R., author. 1996. "The dual festival system of the southern Tepehuan of Mexico."

WILLETT, Elizabeth R.; WILLETT, Thomas L., authors. 2001. "Tepehuán."

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1978. "The Southeastern Tepehuan verb."

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1980. Clause types in Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1980. Sentence components in Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1981. Advancements to direct object in Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1981. Marking grammatical relations in Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1984. Subordination in Southeastern Tepehuan discourse.  

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1987. Discourse strategies in Southeastern Tepehuan.  

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1988. A reference grammar of Southeastern Tepehuan.

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1991. A reference grammar of Southeastern Tepehuan.  

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1994. "Los morfemas gramaticales de persona y número en tepehuán del sureste."

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1996. "Acciones con propósito en el tepehuano del sureste."

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 2001. "Resumen de los estudios lingüísticos del tepehuan: norte y sur."

WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 2006. "Voz y valencia en tepehuano de sureste."

Vernacular Publications

Leyendo y escribiendo en tepehuán; Tepehuán del sureste Comunidad de Santa María Ocotán, Municipio de El Mezquital, Durango. 2004.