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Name: Mayo Type: Dialect Alternate Names: Yaqui; Yaki; Cahita; Yaqui-Mayo; Névome; Yoeme Spoken in: Mexico, USA Number of speakers: 14,000 in Mexico (1990 census). Population total all countries: 14,620 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 12316 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 16406 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: yaq Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Uto-Aztecan (Yuta-Nawan) Parent Dialects: Kahita; Mayo; Cahita; Yaqui-Mayo; Névome (mfy) Mayo; Yaqui; Yaki; Cahita; Yaqui-Mayo; Névome; Yoeme (yaq) Yaki; Teweko; Tehueco; Névome; Cahita (0wt) Brief Description: "Yaqui (Cáhita, Yoeme) is a language of the Taracahitan subfamily of Uto-Aztecan, primarily spoken along the lower Yaqui River in southern Sonora, Mexico. In the early twentieth century many Yaquis fled to the United States to escape political persecution and settled in southern Arizona. About 8,000 Yaquis are now members of the Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, which since 1964 has had a reservation at New Pascua, southwest of Tucson. Although older Arizona Yaquis speak their language fluently or are bilingual in Yaqui and Spanish, younger tribal members have largely switched to English." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed