Pima Bajo language
| Pima Bajo | |
|---|---|
| Oob No'ok | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chihuahua, Sonora |
| Ethnicity | Pima Bajo |
Native speakers | 650 (2000)[1] |
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Uto-Aztecan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
pia |
| Glottolog |
pima1248[2] |
Pima Bajo (Mountain Pima, Lowland Pima, Nevome) is a Mexican indigenous language of the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, spoken by around 1,000 speakers in northern Mexico. The language is called O'ob No'ok by its speakers. The closest related languages are the O'odham (Pima and Papago) and the O'othams.
There are three major communities in the Oob No'ok region (Yepachic, Maycoba and Yécora) but many of the people live in small outlying hamlets and on isolated family ranches rather than the larger towns.
Morphology
Estrada-Fernández studied the language, publishing an overview of their grammar, syntax and vocabulary. She identified consistent dialectical differences between communities in the region, especially between villages in Sonora and those in Chihuahua. Pima Bajo is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.[3]
References
- ↑ Pima Bajo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pima Bajo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Estrada-Fernández, Zarina. 1998. Pima bajo de Yepachi, Chihuahua (Archivo de Lenguas Indigenas de Mexico). Colegio de México.