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Mayo

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: mfy

Population	40,000 (1995 census). 113 monolinguals (1995 census). Ethnic population: 100,000 (1983).
Region	Coastal south Sonora around Navojoa (Huatabampo); north Sinaloa (Los Mochis, Guasave, San José Ríos, north of Guamuchil). 100 villages or more.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 8
Dialects	90% intelligibility with Yaqui [yaq].
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Sonoran, Cahita
Language use	Government scholarships offered to young people who demonstrate Mayo proficiency. Mainly older adults. Mayo people are reticent to identify as Mayo. The more monolingual avoid contact with outsiders. Prefer Mayo.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 2%. Literacy rate in L2: 20%. Radio programs. Dictionary. Bible portions: 1962–2000.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV; medium word length, clitics, affixes; nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists; pastoralists; fishermen. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Collard, Howard and Elizabeth Collard, compilers. 1962. Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano.

Hagberg, Larry and José Luis Moctezuma Zamarrón. 2001. "Investigaciones sobre la lengua mayo."

Hagberg, Larry. 2001. "Mayo practical orthography."

Hagberg, Lawrence R. 1988. "Stress and length in Mayo."

Hagberg, Lawrence R. 1989. "Floating accent in Mayo."

Hagberg, Lawrence R. 2000. "Glottal stop in Mayo: Consonant or vowel feature?."

Hagberg, Lawrence Raymond. 2006. An autosegmental theory of stress.