- Tepehuán
Infobox ethnic group
group=Tepehuán
poptime=Mexico: approx 25,000
popplace=Mexico (Jalisco ,Zacatecas ,Nayarit )
rels=Animism
langs=Tepehuán, Spanish,
related=Cora,Huichol The Tepehuán (Tepehuanes or Tepehuanos) are an indigenous ethnic group in northwest Mexico, whose villages at the time of Spanish conquest spanned a large territory along the
Sierra Madre Occidental fromChihuahua andDurango in the north toJalisco in the south. The southern Tepehuán community included an isolated settlement (Azqueltán ) in the middle ofHuichol territory in the Bolaños River canyon. The southern Tepehuán were historically referred to as Tepecanos.The
Tepehuán language s are part of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family, within which it is grouped with O'odham to form the Piman family.The name is pronounced IPA|tepe'wan, and is often spelled "Tepehuan" without the accent in English language publications. This can cause confusion with the languages called Tepehua ("tePEwa"), which are collectively referred to as Tepehuan ("tePEwan"). They are spoken on the other side of Mexico, and are closely related to Totonac and not at all to Tepehuán. The names of both groups come from
Nahuatl and mean 'mountain dwellers' or 'mountain people'. [ [http://www.native-languages.org/tepehuan.htm Tepehuán Language and the Tepehuan Indian Tribe (Tepecano, Tepehuano) ] ]References
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