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Tarahumara, Western

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: tac

Population	39,800 (1996 census).
Region	Chihuahua, Guazapares, Urique, and Uruachi towns.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 11
Alternate names	Baja Tarahumara, Ralámuli de la Baja Tarahumara, Rarámuri, Rocoroibo, Tarahumara del Poniente, Lowland Tarahumara
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Sonoran, Tarahumaran, Tarahumara
Language use	Some also use Spanish.
Language development	Bible portions: 1975–1985.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV, long words, affixes, nontonal. Seminomadic pastoralists; swidden or peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BURGESS, Donald H., author. 1970. "Russian astronauts first to land on moon."

BURGESS, Donald H., author. 1970. "Tarahumara phonology."

BURGESS, Donald H., author. 1977. "El origen del marrano en tarahumara."

BURGESS, Donald H., author. 1979. "Domingo Morillo and the fox (Romínko Morio; Geyóči): Western Tarahumara."  

BURGESS, Donald H., author. 1979. "Verbal suffixes of prominence in Western Tarahumara narrative discourse."  

BURGESS, Donald H., author. 1984. "Western Tarahumara."  

BURGESS, Donald H., author. 1989. "Western Tarahumara place names."

BURGESS, Donald H.; BYE, Robert A.; MARES T., Albino, authors. 1975. "Ethnobotany of the Western Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico: I. Notes on the genus Agave."

LANGACKER, Ronald W., editor. 1984. Southern Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches: Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 4.