| Guachichil | |
|---|---|
| Cuachichil | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Zacatecas |
| Ethnicity | Guachichil |
| Extinct | 17th century |
| Revival | 2020s |
Uto-Aztecan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
0w6 | |
| Glottolog | None |
| 👁 Image Guachichil | |
The Guachichil language is an extinct language formerly spoken in the Mexican state of Zacatecas by the Guachichil. Practically nothing is known about it,[1][2][3] with just two words surviving.[4] Wick Miller hypothesized that it was one of the Uto-Aztecan languages,[5] as did Alfred Kroeber,[3] but there is no evidence for this.[1] Rosa Herminia Yáñez Rosales [es] suggests that it was closer to other Chichimeca languages, like Zacateco (apparently close or identical with Huichol[6]), Chichimeco Jonaz, and Guamare.[1] According to a Huichol, "Guachichil" was an old name for the Huichols.[6]
The structural and morphological information can only be guessed from proper names and place names. Guachichil was divided into multiple dialects.[7]
As of 2023, the Guachichil Nation, centered in San Luís Potosí, Mexico, (composed of many affiliated Guachichil groups spread across Mexico and the United States) announced ongoing work to revitalize and reconstruct the Guachichil language. A dictionary containing preserved Guachichil words and words added through reconstruction efforts currently exists and is growing.[8][How can this be done if only 2 words are preserved?]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Rosales 2017, p. 238, Note 2.
- ^ Rosales 2017, p. 250.
- ^ a b Kroeber, Alfred Louis (1939). Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America. University of California Press.
- ^ Gursky 1966, p. 45.
- ^ Miller 1983, p. 331.
- ^ a b Harvey, H. R. (1972-12-31), Wauchope, Robert; Cline, Howard F. (eds.), "7. The Relaciones Geográficas, 1579—1586: Native Languages", Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12, University of Texas Press, pp. 279–323, doi:10.7560/701526-011, ISBN 978-1-4773-0681-9, retrieved 2025-03-24
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ^ Martínez Sánchez 2019.
- ^ "Guachichil Language and the Guachichil Indian Tribe (Huachichil, Quauhchichitl)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
Sources
[edit]- Miller, Wick R. (1983). "A Note on Extinct Languages of Northwest Mexico of Supposed Uto-Aztecan Affiliation". International Journal of American Linguistics. 49 (3). University of Chicago Press: 328–334. doi:10.1086/465793. ISSN 0020-7071.
- Martínez Sánchez, Lucas (2019). Guachichiles y Franciscanos: en el libro más antiguo del convento de Charcas, 1586 - 1663 (PDF) (in Spanish). Saltillo: Consejo Editorial.
- Gursky, Karl-Heinz (1966). "On the Historical Position of Waikuri". International Journal of American Linguistics. 32 (1): 41–45. doi:10.1086/464877.
- Rosales, Rosa H. Yáñez (2017-06-17). "Nahuatl L2 texts from Northern Nueva Galicia". Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond. Studies in Language Companion Series. Vol. 185. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 237–261. doi:10.1075/slcs.185.12ros. ISBN 978-90-272-5950-9. ISSN 0165-7763.
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