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Tarascan language

Also known as: Purépecha language, Tarasco language
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Lyle Campbell
Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Author of American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America and others.
Lyle Campbell
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Also called:
Purépecha language
Related Topics:
Mesoamerican Indian languages
language isolate

Tarascan language, a language isolate, spoken by about 175,000 people in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It has no known relatives, though unsubstantiated proposals have attempted to link it with the “Chibchan-Paezan” hypothesis, Mayan, Quechua, and Zuni. Tarascan has several dialectal varieties.

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