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Triqui, Copala

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: trc

Population	25,000 in Mexico (2007 SIL). Population total all countries: 30,000.
Region	Oaxaca, Juxtlahuaca, San Juan Copala. Over 1,000 speakers: Sonora, including Miguel Alemán (both settled and seasonal); Baja California, San Quintín valley (mostly settled); Coastal California, including Greenfield; Mexico City. Smaller colonies in most tourist centers of Mexico. Also in United States.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 224
Alternate names	Copala Trique, Triqui Bajo, Triqui de San Juan Copala
Dialects	56% intelligibility with Chicahuaxtla [trs].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Trique
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 40%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1987.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Considerable internal linguistic variation, though not well-defined subdialects. VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Swidden agriculturalists (in the traditional home area); commercial farm laborers, craft vendors (in the dispersed areas).

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BRADLEY, C. Henry; HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., editors. 1992. Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages 4.  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1969. "A note on concepts of political geography."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1972. The importance of naturalness in literacy materials.

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1973. "La acculturación lingüística entre los triques de Copala, Oaxaca."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1973. "La mayordomía comerciante de los triques."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1974. "Reduplication and anomalous rule ordering in Copala Trique."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1975. On hard to teach phonological units.

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1976. "Tense-negation interplay in Copala Trique."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1977. "El origen del sol y de la luna."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1977. "Phonetic vs. phonemic correspondence in two Trique dialects."  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1977. "Reversals of Copala Trique temporal metaphors through language contact."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1978. Choosing a tone orthography for Copala Trique.

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1979. "Topónimos triques: huellas de la prehistoria."  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1980. "El mundo animal en el folklore de los triques de Copala."  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1980. A note on Copala Trique insect-bird homonyms.  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1980. Los nombres personales entre los triques de Copala.  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1982. "A Copala Trique deluge story."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1983. "Apposition and X-bar rules."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1984. "Copala Trique tone and universal tone features."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1984. "Reflexives and reciprocals in Copala Trique."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1984. The phonology and morphology of tone and laryngeals in Copala Trique.

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1985. "Trique words about the sacred."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1985. "Vowel length in Copala Trique: An abstract laryngeal analysis."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1987. La duración vocálica en el Trique de Copala: Un análisis abstracto.  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1988. "The asymetrical distribution of tone in Copala Trique."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1990. "Semantic and syntactic extensions of Copala Trique body-part nouns."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1990. "Testing the Copala Trique transition primer."

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1992. "A syntactic sketch of copala trique."  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1992. "Parsing relative clauses in Copala Trique."  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1997. Covert transitive-intransitive verb pairs in Copala Trique.  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1999. A cultural sketch of the Copala Trique.  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 2005. Gramática popular del triqui de Copala.  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 2007. "Tone languages and language (un)awareness."  

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 2008. Gramática popular del triqui de copala.

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., compiler. 1988. Three Trique myths of San Juan Copala.

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E.; HOLLENBACH, Bruce E., compilers. 1975. Trique: San Juan Copala, Oaxaca.

HOLLENBACH, Bruce E., author. 1975. Discourse structure, interpropositional relations, and translation.

MERRIFIELD, William R., editor. 1977. Studies in Otomanguean phonology.  

Vernacular Publications

Letrá achrón ní' xna'ánj nu̱': gu̱un che'e̱ ní' naya̱a̱ ní' do̱', cachro̱n ní' do̱', se'xna'a̱nj ní'a. 2008.

Me xcuu me xo' ga̱. 2006.  

Nano̱' so̱' luu á. 2004.  

Pequeño diccionario ilustrado en el triqui de Copala. 2004.