Mayo language

Not to be confused with Yessan-Mayo language or Mayo language (Brazil).
Mayo
Native to Sonora, Sinaloa, and parts in Durango, Mexico
Ethnicity Mayo
Native speakers
 40,000 (2010 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mfy
Glottolog mayo1264[2]

Mayo is an Uto-Aztecan language. It is spoken by about 40,000 people, the Mexican Mayo or Yoreme Indians, who live in the South of the Mexican state of Sonora and in the North of the neighboring state of Sinaloa. Under the "Law of Linguistic Rights," it is recognized as a "national language" along with 62 other indigenous languages and Spanish which all have the same validity in Mexico.

The Mayo language is partially intelligible with the Yaqui language, and the division between the two languages is more political, from the historic division between the Yaqui and the Mayo peoples, than linguistic.

Programming in both Mayo and Yaqui is carried by the CDI's radio station XEETCH, broadcasting from Etchojoa, Sonora.

Morphology

Mayo is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

See also

Mayo language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

References

  1. ↑ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mayo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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