Northern Tepehuán language

E118711

Native American language Uto-Aztecan language indigenous language

The Northern Tepehuán language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tepehuán people of northern Mexico, particularly in parts of Durango and neighboring states.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Northern Tepehuán language canonical	7
Northern Tepehuan language	4
ntp (Northern Tepehuan)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T998655 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Northern Tepehuán language
Context triple: [Tepehuán, language, Northern Tepehuán language]

A. Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
B. Diegueño language
The Diegueño language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Diegueño) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
C. Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
D. Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
E. Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Northern Tepehuán language
Target entity description: The Northern Tepehuán language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tepehuán people of northern Mexico, particularly in parts of Durango and neighboring states.

A. Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
B. Diegueño language
The Diegueño language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Diegueño) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
C. Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
D. Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
E. Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language ⓘ Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ
autonym	O’dam ⓘ
branchOf	Tepiman languages ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	Mexico ⓘ
endangeredStatus	definitely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Tepehuán people ⓘ linked to: Tepehuan people
family	Uto-Aztecan language family ⓘ linked to: Uto-Aztecan
glottocode	nort2951 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Tepehuán de Durango ⓘ Tepehuán del Norte ⓘ linked to: Tepehuán de Durango
hasDialects	regional varieties in Durango ⓘ
hasDomain	oral tradition ⓘ traditional songs and narratives ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	SOV word order (tendency) ⓘ agglutinative morphology ⓘ complex verbal inflection ⓘ verb-based morphology ⓘ
hasOrganizationInvolved	Mexican National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI) ⓘ linked to: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length (in some analyses) ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort	community-based language preservation projects ⓘ
ISO639-3	ntp ⓘ
languageFamily	Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
languageOf	Tepehuán culture ⓘ
lexicalSimilarity	other Tepiman languages ⓘ
macroArea	Mesoamerica ⓘ
region	Sierra Madre Occidental ⓘ
relatedTo	O’odham language ⓘ Pima Bajo language ⓘ linked to: Pima language Southern Tepehuán language ⓘ
spokenIn	Chihuahua ⓘ Durango ⓘ Mexico ⓘ northern Mexico ⓘ
status	vulnerable ⓘ
subfamily	Tepiman branch ⓘ
typologicalClass	head-marking language ⓘ
usedAlongside	Spanish language ⓘ
usedFor	daily communication in Tepehuán communities ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ
usedInEducation	bilingual education programs (limited) ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ linked to: Latin alphabet

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