Tarahumara language Totally Explained

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The Tarahumara language is a Mexican indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by around 70,000 Tarahumara or Raramúri people in the state of Chihuahua.

Varieties

The ethnologue counts 5 varieties of Tarahumara:

Name	ISO-code	Location	Speakers
Central Tarahumara	tar	Southwestern Chihuahua.	55,000. 10,000 monolinguals.
Lowland Tarahumara	tac	Chihuahua.	15,000
Northern Tarahumara	thh	Chihuahua, towns of Santa Rosa Ariseachi, Agua Caliente Ariseachi, Bilaguchi, Tomochi, La Nopalera.	300
Southeastern Tarahumara	tcu	Chinatú, Chihuahua.	No estimate
Southwestern Tarahumara	twr	Chihuahua, town of Tubare	100 (1983 SIL).

Phonology

Tarahumara has five vowel qualities in addition to distinguishing vowel time: /i, e, a, o, u/. It also distinguishes between short and long vowels. The vocalic accent is phonemic. The consonant inventory includes:

	labial	alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
voiceless occlusive	p	t		k	ʔ
affricate		t͡s
fricative		s			h
approximant	w	l, ɾ	j
nasal	m	n

It should also be noted:

The affricate /t͡s/ is usually written also as .
The phoneme /j/ is practically always written as .
The phoneme /ʔ/ is sometimes written as <ʼ>.

Media

Tarahumara-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XETAR, broadcasting from Guachochi, Chihuahua.
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