Pame language
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| Pame | ||
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| Spoken in | Mexico | |
| Region | San Luis Potosí, Puebla | |
| Total speakers | <10000 | |
| Language family | American
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | variously: pbs – Central Pame pmq – Northern Pame pmz – Southern Pame |
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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 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.
[edit] References
- Suaréz, Jorge A, 1983, The Mesoamerican Indian Languages, Cambridge, CUP
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