Tarahumara language

Tarahumara
Rarámuri ra'ícha
Native toMexico
RegionChihuahua
EthnicityTarahumara
Native speakers
92,000 (2020 census)[1]
Official status
Official language in
One of 63 national languages of Mexico [1]
Regulated bySecretaría de Educación Pública
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
tar – Central Tarahumara
thh – Northern Tarahumara
tcu – Southeastern Tarahumara
twr – Southwestern Tarahumara
tac – Western Tarahumara
Glottologtara1321
ELPTarahumara
Pre-contact (green) and current (red) extent of Tarahumara in Mexico
Tarahumara is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Tarahumara language (native name Rarámuri/Ralámuli ra'ícha "people language"[2]) is a Mexican Indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by around 70,000 Tarahumara (Rarámuri/Ralámuli) people in the state of Chihuahua, according to a 2002 census conducted by the government of Mexico.[3]

  1. ^ Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.
  2. ^ Caballero 2008, p. 12.
  3. ^ Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI), Mexico; cited by Caballero 2008: 9