Tepecano language
| Tepecano | |
|---|---|
| Region | Mexico: Jalisco |
| Extinct | 1980s[1] |
Uto-Aztecan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tep |
| Glottolog | tepe1278 |
The Tepecano language is an extinct
Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. So far as is known, the last speaker of Tepecano was Lino de la Rosa (born September 22, 1895), who was still living as of February 1980.[2]
Research on Tepecano was first carried out by the American linguistic anthropologist John Alden Mason in Azqueltán from 1911 to 1913. This work led to the publication of a monographic grammatical sketch in 1916 as well as an article on native prayers in Tepecano that Mason had collected from informants in 1918. Later field-research was conducted by American linguist Dennis Holt in 1965 and from 1979 to 80, but none of his results have so far been published.[3]
Morphology
Tepecano is an
agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes
strung together.
Notes
- ^ Tepecano at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Holt 2001: 30
- ^ Dennis Holt, personal communication
