- Pame language
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Pame Spoken in Mexico Region San Luis Potosí, Puebla Native speakers <10000 (date missing) Language family Oto-Manguean- Oto-Pame
- Pame
Language codes ISO 639-3 variously:
pbs – Central Pame
pmq – Northern Pam
pmz – Southern PameThe 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 linguistic family. The Ethnologue counts two living varieties of Pame: Central Pame[1] spoken in the town of Santa María Acapulco, and Northern Pame[2] 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-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEANT-AM, based in Tancanhuitz de Santos, San Luis Potosí.
References
- Suaréz, Jorge A, 1983, The Mesoamerican Indian Languages, Cambridge, CUP
External links
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Indigenous languages of Mexico
- Oto-Manguean languages
- Oto-Pamean languages
- Endangered Oto-Manguean languages
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
- Oto-Pame
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