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The Oto-Manguean or Otomanguean (/ ˌ oʊ t oʊ ˈ m æ ŋ ɡ iː ə n /) languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas.All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean branch of the family, which is now extinct, was spoken as far south as Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
I SUB aro rice OBJ kwete. eat VERB Ti aro kwete. I rice eat SUB OBJ VERB "I eat rice" Young and Givón describe the sentence features in which Ngäbere differs from typical S–O–V languages: "Although the language bears the unmistakable marks of an SOV language, auxiliaries and modality verbs precede – rather than follow – their compliments. This also extends to the negative marker ...
The Otomi (/ ˌ oʊ t ə ˈ m iː /; Spanish: Otomí) are an Indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region.. The Otomi are an Indigenous people of the Americas who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico.
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.
The name "Mixteco" is a Nahuatl exonym, from mixtecatl, from mixtli [miʃ.t͡ɬi] ("cloud") + -catl ("inhabitant of place of"). [7] Speakers of Mixtec use an expression (which varies by dialect) to refer to their own language, and this expression generally means "sound" or "word of the rain": dzaha dzavui in Classical Mixtec; or "word of the people of the rain", dzaha Ñudzahui (Dzaha ...
Qʼanjobʼal (IPA: [qʼanxoɓal]) (also Kanjobal) [3] is a Mayan language from the Q'anjobalan branch spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.According to 1998 estimates compiled by SIL International in Ethnologue, there were approximately 77,700 native speakers, primarily in the Huehuetenango Department of Guatemala. [4]
Bi=hon-ga-wi-tho-wa Bi=hon-ga-wi-tho-wa "He/she looks for us only (around) here" The initial proclitic bi marks the present tense and the third person singular, the verb root hon means "to look for", the - ga - suffix marks a first person object, the - wi - suffix marks dual number, and tho marks the sense of "only" or "just" whereas the - wa - suffix marks the locative sense of "here ...
Ixil language is spoken in Mexico in some municipalities of the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo.In the state of Campeche is spoken in the communities of Los Laureles and Quetzal-Edzná from the Campeche municipality and in Maya Tecún in Champotón municipality, while in Quintana Roo is spoken in the towns of Maya Balam and Kuchumatán, Bacalar municipality.