Pame language
| Pame | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | San Luis Potosí, Puebla |
| Ethnicity | Pame people |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2010 census)[1] |
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Oto-Manguean
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Variously: pbs – Central Pame pmq – Northern Pame pmz – Southern Pame |
| Glottolog |
pame1260[2] |
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The Pame language, number 1 (azure), north. | |
The Pame language is an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by around 10,000 Pame people in the state of San Luis Potosí. The Pame language belongs to the Oto-Pamean branch of the Oto-manguean language family. The Ethnologue counts two living varieties of Pame: Central Pame spoken in the town of Santa María Acapulco, and Northern Pame spoken in communities from the north of Río Verde to the border with Tamaulipas. Pame languages are tonal and distinguish high and low level tones and a high-low contour tone(Suaréz 1983, pg 51).
Pame has an octal (base-8) counting system, as the Pame keep count by using the four spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.[3]
Pame-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEANT-AM, based in Tancanhuitz de Santos, San Luis Potosí.
References
- ↑ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pamean". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ascher, Marcia (1994), Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas, Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-412-98941-7
- Suaréz, Jorge A. 1983. The Mesoamerican Indian Languages. Cambridge: CUP
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