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Huichol

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: hch

Population	20,000 (1990 census). Ethnic population: 20,000.
Region	Northeast Nayarit and northwest Jalisco. Main centers: Guadalupe Ocotán, Nayarit, San Andrés Cohamiata, Jal., San Sebastián, Jal., Santa Catarina, Jal., Tuxpan de Bolaños, Jal.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 23
Alternate names	Vixaritari Vaniuqui, Vizaritari Vaniuki
Dialects	San Andrés Cohamiata (Western Huichol), San Sebastián-Santa Catarina (Eastern Huichol), Coyultita. 58% cognate with El Nayar Cora [crn], (most similar) (Miller 1984).
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Sonoran, Corachol
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. Oral and written use in religious services, oral use in local commerce, administration, oral literature, songs. Letter writing. All ages. Positive attitude. Some also use El Nayar Cora [crn] or Spanish. Spanish used in schools, clinics.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%–10%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1967.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Few schools, clinics. Go to Pacific coast for temporary labor in the spring. Make their own violins and guitars. Their music unique. SOV; long words, prefixes, suffixes, clitics; CV, CVV; tonal. Swidden agriculturalists: maize, beans, squash, vegetables; animal husbandry: chickens, pigs, donkeys, horses, cattle. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Casad, Eugene H. 2004. "Imagery through the ages."

Grimes, Barbara F. 1981. "Huichol literacy report."

Grimes, Barbara F. and Joseph E. Grimes. 1961. "Notes on Huichol kinship terminology."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1955. "El huichol y la medicina."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1955. "Style in Huichol structure."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1957. "Translation procedure in Huichol."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1959. "Huichol tone and intonation."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1960. "Spanish-Nahuatl-Huichol monetary terms."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1960. Huichol syntax.

Grimes, Joseph E. 1961. "Huichol economics."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1964. Huichol syntax.

Grimes, Joseph E. 1966. "Metodología para el análisis de sistemas de prefijos en huichol y cora."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1966. "Some inter-sentence relationships in Huichol."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1975. Review of: Peyote hunt: the sacred story of the Huichol Indians, by Barbara G. Myerhoff.

Grimes, Joseph E. 1980. "Huichol life form classification I: Animals."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1980. "Huichol life form classification II: Plants."

Grimes, Joseph E. 1994. "The Huichol and modern medicine."

Grimes, Joseph E. 2002. "Lexical functions as a heuristic for huichol."

Grimes, Joseph E. 2002. "Lexical functions as a hueristic for Huichol."

Grimes, Joseph E. and Barbara F. Grimes. 1962. "Semantic distinctions in Huichol (Uto-Aztecan) kinship."

Grimes, Joseph E. and others. 1981. El Huichol: apuntes sobre el léxico.

Grimes, Joseph E. and Thomas B. Hinton. 1967. "The Huichol and Cora."

Grimes, Joseph E. n.d.. Methods for semantic inventories: Huichol.

Grimes, Joseph E., Ivan Lowe, and Robert A. Dooley. 1978. "Closed systems with complex restrictions."

McIntosh, John B. 1945. "Huichol phonemes."

McIntosh, John B. 1949. "Cosmogonía huichol."

McIntosh, John B. 1951. Huichol texts and dictionary.

McIntosh, John B. and Joseph E. Grimes. 1954. Niuqui ʼIquisicayari (Vocabulario huichol-castellano castellano-huichol).

Vernacular Publications

'Aixüa tepüteu'erie = Libro de alimentación e higiene. 2007.  

Hablemos español y huichol. 2006.