Oto-Pamean languages

Oto-Pamean
Geographic distribution:	Mexico
Linguistic classification:	Oto-Mangue Western Oto-Mangue Oto-Pame–Chinantecan Oto-Pamean
Subdivisions:	Otomian Matlatzinca Chichimeca Pamean
Glottolog:	otop1242[1]

The Oto-Pamean languages are a branch of the Oto-Manguean languages that includes languages of the Otomi-Mazahua, Matlatzinca, and Pamean language groups all of which are spoken in central Mexico. Like all Oto-Manguean languages, the Oto-Pamean languages are tonal languages, though most have relatively simple tones systems.^[2] Unlike many Oto-Manguean languages that tend towards an isolating typology, they are morphologically complex headmarking languages with complex systems of conjugational classes both for verbs and nouns, and in the Pamean languages there are highly complex patterns of suppletion.

Classification

• Otomian
  • Otomi
    • Northern Otomi
    • Western Otomi
    • Southern Otomi
    • Eastern Otomi
  • Mazahua
    • 12 different varieties
• Matlatzincan
  • Ocuilteco/Tlawika
  • Matlatzinca de Oxtotilpan
• Pamean
  • Northern Pame
  • Central Pame
  • Southern Pame†
• Chichimeco Jonaz^[3][4][5]

References

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Otopamean". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. Arellanes, F., Carranza, L., Peón, M. E. C., Fidencio, V., Guerrero, A., Knapp, M., & Romero, A. Hacia una tipología tonal de las lenguas otopames. RAÍCES, 1(2), 3.
3. Palancar, Enrique L. 2016. Oto-Pamean.
4. Bartholomew, Doris. 1965. The Reconstruction of Oto-Pamean (Mexico). PhD Dissertation. Tulane University.
5. Soustelle, J., 1937. La Famille Otomi-Pame du Mexique Central. Travaux et Mémoires de l̂Institut d̂Ethnologie. Paris: Université de Paris.