Opata (Teguima) Language Info Links |
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2000 Censo General de Placion y Vivenda, Indicates only 4 speakers of Opata left! |
Teguima (Opata) phonology. Issue 9:1 David L. Shaul To order back issue click here > Southwest Journal of Linguistics 1989 |
Teguima (Opata) Inflectional Morphology. Issue 56.4. (561-573) [Description of the major features of Opata (N. Mexican Uto-Aztecan] inflection morphology . Recovered from the 18th Cent. mss. of Lombardo] David L. Shaul To order back issue write to > IJAL 1990 |
Opatan is made up of two languages, Opata and Eudeve. Opatan is classified as Uto-Aztecan/Southern Uto Aztecan/ Sonoran/Cahita. It was spoken in the five major valleys in northeastern Sonora. Opata was actually called Teguima by its speakers. That is probably why the tribe is also referred to as Teguima or Teguime Indians. The language is nearly/probably extinct. With only 4 speakers left according to the 2000 census in Mexico, and they may be actually Eudeve. Below is a list of articles written about the Teguima (Opata) language. |
Do you know someone who speaks Opata or Eudeve? Do you know of any sound recordings? Please write to me if you have information. |
Opata Tribes Research Project |
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Also known as Obagg'ata, Teguima, Teguime, Eudeve, Eudebe, Heve, Hegue, Heguis, Dohema, Doheme |
Arte de la lengua teguima vulgarmente llama opata. Ayer ms. Newberry Library, Chicago Lombardo Natal 1641 Arte de la lengua teguima vulgarmente llamada Opata Miguel de Ribera Lombardo Natal 1702 Sermones en la lengua opata Ms. Bancroft Library Antonio Barbastro 1792 Comparative vocabulary, in the languages of the Pima, Papago and Opata tribes. Buckingham Smith, 1850-1980, National Anthrpological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Opata (Eudeve) Vocabulary John R. Bartlett National Archives, Smithsonian Institution 1851 Vocabulario manual de la lengua Opata Francisco Pimentel Sociedad Mexicana de Geografia y Estadistica Boletin # 10 - 287-313 1863 El Opata o Teguima. Cuadro descrptivo comparativo de las lenguas indigenas de Mexico. Francisco Pimentel 91-136. Mexico: Isidoro Epstein 1874 Vocabulario de la lengua oputo. Felipe S. Luna Ms. Bancroft Library 1876 Vocabulario del dialecto hehue de la lengua opata interprete por la indita Rosa Tecla, Sinoquippe, Rio de Sonora. Alphonse Pinart Ms. Bancroft Library 1878 Vocabulario de la lengua opata, dialecto tehuima Pablo Balbastro Bancroft Library 1879 Vocabulario de la lengua opata Pablo Balcastro Ms. Bancroft Library 1931 Algunas observaciones acerca de la lengua Opata o Teguima; Rica en vocablos de interes para el estudio de la flora y de la fauna regionales J. Ignacio Davila Garibi Mexico: Cultura 1950 The Opata: An Inland Tribe of Sonora University of New Mexico - Publications in Anthropology. No. 6 Jean B. Johnson 1950 Opata: dialect of Tonichi, Sonora. Vocabularies of languages of the Uto-Aztecan family. Jean B. Johnson and Irmgard W. Johnson Collected by Harold Key - Micro Collection, # 38 390-397. Chicago 1954 Material linguistico del oriente de Sonora: Tonichi y Ponida Roberto H. Escalante Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia 16 149-178 1963 The Pima, Opata and Ceri (Seri) Languages Hubert Howe Bancroft The Native Races - Vol. 3 Myths and Languages, 694-705 San Francisco - The History Company 1986 |
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