Tepehuan, Northern

NTP

developing

Alternate Names: Tepehuán del Norte

Genealogy:

Uto-Aztecan
Southern Uto-Aztecan
Pimic
Tepehuan

Demographics: 6,200 (2005 census).

Language Use: Some also use a Tarahumara variety.

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 25%. Literacy rate in L2: 35%. NT: 1982.

Typology: VSO; long words, affixes, clitics; tonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico