Alternate Names: Guarijío, Maculái, Macurái, Macurawe, Varihío, Varijío, Vorijío
Dialects: Highland Guarijío, Lowland Huarijío. Intelligibility of Tarahumara languages less than 50%. Maculai (Macurawe, Macuyawe), formerly used by upriver Huarijio to refer to downriver Huarijio. Refer to themselves as Huarijio, Macurawe or Macuyawe. Old ruins of Macoyawi, now under Lake Mocutzari, was presumably a village of theirs.
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Demographics: 2,840 (2005 SIL). 1,570 in Chihuahua, 1,210 in Sonora.
Language Use: All ages. Also use Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Grammar. Bible portions: 1995.
Typology: OVS; long words, affixes, clitics; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico