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Tepehuan, Northern

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: ntp

Population	6,200 (2005 census).
Region	South Chihuahua, Baborigame area.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 9
Alternate names	Tepehuán del Norte
Dialects	Related to Pima Bajo [pia], Tohono O’odham [ood], Southeastern Tepehuan [stp], Southwestern Tepehuan [twr].
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Sonoran, Tepiman
Language use	Some also use a Tarahumara variety.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%. Literacy rate in L2: 35%. Dictionary. NT: 1982.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; long words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Pastoralists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bascom, Burton and Eugene H. Casad. 2000. "’Mother’ in Northern Tepehuan."

Bascom, Burton. [1994]. "La conjugación de conjunciones en el tepehuán del norte."

Bascom, Burton. 1959. "Tonomechanics of Northern Tepehuan."

Bascom, Burton. 1965. Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman).

Bascom, Burton. 1982. "Northern Tepehuan."  

Langacker, Ronald W. and Burton Bascom. 1986. "The syntax and origin of ga- in Northern Tepehuan."

Langacker, Ronald W., editor. 1982. Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches: Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 3.  

Pike, Kenneth L., Ralph P. Barrett, and Burton Bascom. 1959. "Instrumental collaboration on a Tepehuan (Uto-Aztecan) pitch problem."

Willett, Elizabeth R. and Thomas L. Willett. 2001. "Tepehuán."