Tepecano language
{{Short description|Extinct Indigenous language of Mexico}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Tepecano
| region = Jalisco
| extinct = 1980s, with the death of Lino de la Rosa
| ref = e25
| familycolor = Uto-Aztecan
| fam2 = Piman (Tepiman)
| iso3 = tep
| glotto = tepe1278
| glottorefname = Tepecano
| states = Mexico
| map = ChichimecNations.png
| mapcaption = Map of {{legend inline|#ecb2af|Tepecano}} and neighboring Chichimeca nations during the 16th century
| ethnicity = Tepecano
}}
The Tepecano language is an extinct Indigenous language of Mexico belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language-family. It was formerly spoken by a small group of people in Azqueltán (earlier Atzqueltlán), Jalisco, a small village on the Río Bolaños in the far northern part of the state, just east of the territory of the Wixárika people. Most closely related to Southern Tepehuán of the state of Durango, Tepecano was a Mesoamerican language and evinced many of the traits that define the 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.Holt 2001: 30
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, American linguist Dennis Holt conducted field research in 1965 and from 1979 to 1980, but his results have not yet been published.Dennis Holt, personal communication
Morphology
Tepecano is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book |author=Campbell, Lyle |author-link=Lyle Campbell |year=1997 |title=American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America |edition=OUP paperback [2000]|series=Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, no. 4 |others=William Bright (series general ed.) |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-509427-1 |oclc=32923907}}
- {{cite journal |author=Holt, Dennis |author-link=Dennis Holt |date=Spring 2001 |title=Valedictory: Lino de la Rosa |url=http://www.ogmios.org/ogmios/Ogmios_016.pdf |format=PDF online facsimile |journal=Ogmios Newsletter |location=Bath, England |publisher=Foundation for Endangered Languages |volume=2.4 |issue=16 |pages=30 |issn=1471-0382 |oclc=223025309}}
- {{cite journal |author=Mason, J. Alden |author-link=John Alden Mason |date=June 1916|title=Tepecano, a Piman Language of Western Mexico |url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofnewyorka25newy |format=digitized reproduction online at Internet Archive |journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |location=New York |publisher=the Academy|volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=309–416 |doi=10.1111/j.1749-6632.1916.tb55171.x|bibcode=1916NYASA..25..309M |issn=0077-8923|oclc=1946633|hdl=2027/iau.31858003180399 |s2cid=86778121 |hdl-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |author=Mason, J. Alden |author-link=John Alden Mason |date=May 1918 |title=Tepecano Prayers |url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:IJAL_vol_1.djvu/99 |format=digitized reproduction online at Wikisource |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |location=New York |publisher=Douglas C. McMurtrie |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=91–153 |doi=10.1086/463718 |s2cid=224808597 |issn=0020-7071 |oclc=31838203}}
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{{Uto-Aztecan languages}}
Category:Agglutinative languages
Category:Mesoamerican languages
Category:Extinct languages of North America
Category:Indigenous languages of Mexico