Opata (Teguima)  Language Info Links
Opata Language Tree
1990 Censo General de Placion y Vivenda,  - Indicates only 12 speakers of Opata left!
2000 Censo General de Placion y Vivenda, Indicates only 4 speakers of Opata left!
ELF - Endangered Language Fund
Teguima (Opata) phonology. Issue 9:1
David L. Shaul
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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
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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.
Uto-Aztecan Language Tree
Do you know someone who speaks Opata or Eudeve? Do you know of any sound recordings?
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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
Opata Speakers in Mexico, 1990
(Population Census, by state; Tables 7-9)
Data extracted by William E. Doolittle
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Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indigenas de Mexico: o Tratado de filologia mexicana. Vol I. por Francisco Pimental.