Language of the Week: Yaqui « Anggarrgoon

Language of the Week: Yaqui

This week’s language is another American language. Yaqui is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Sonora (Mexico) and Arizona.

Pascua Yaqui Tribe official web site
Yaqui wikipedia page
Native-Languages.org page, including lesson links and vocabularies.
Lots of work on Yaqui grammar (google scholar search)
Yaqui complex sentences (Liliane Guerrerro, UB 2004 dissertation).
Sonoran Yaqui language structures; link to Amazon.
Tribal approach to language and literacy development [paper].

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Heidi Harley Says:
February 6, 2008 at 3:05 pm
yay, yaqui! speakng of aitches, i note that my consultants prefer ‘hiaki’ as the spelling, since it’s a palatalized [h] at the beginning, not just a simple [j]. In sonora, mexico, it’s often spelled ‘jiaki’.

:) hh

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