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Northwestern Otomi

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Northwestern Otomi
Ñäñho Hñahñu (Mezquital Otomi) Hñohño, Ñañhų, Hñąñho, Ñǫthǫ (Querétaro Otomi)
Native to	Mexico
Region	Hidalgo, Querétaro, México
Native speakers	(130,000 cited 1990 census)^[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Oto-Pamean Otomian Northwestern Otomi
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `ote` – Mezquital Otomi `otq` – Querétaro Otomi
Glottolog	`nort3201`
ELP	Mezquital Otomí

Northwestern Otomi is a Native American language of central Mexico.

Varieties[edit]

There are two varieties with limited (c. 78%) intelligibility, sometimes considered separate languages:

Mezquital Otomi (Otomí del Valle del Mezquital). The autonym is Hñahñu^[2] It is spoken in the stateofHidalgo, especially in the Mezquital Valley, by 100,000 people. There are also some migrant worker expatriates in the United States in the states of Texas (270), Oklahoma (230), and North Carolina (100). A dictionary and grammar of the language have been published.
Querétaro Otomi. The autonym varies as Hñohño, Ñañhų, Hñąñho, Ñǫthǫ.^[3] It is spoken by 33,000 in the Querétaro municipalities of Amealco (towns of San Ildefonso & Santiago Mexquititlán); in Mexico State, the town of Acambay, and in Querétaro, the town of Tolimán, and in Michoacan, the town of San Felipe los Alzatí. There are also small numbers in the state of Guanajuato.

^ Mezquital OtomiatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Querétaro OtomiatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

^ Lastra 2006 p. 57, Wright Carr 2005

^ Lastra 2006 p. 57

Lastra, Yolanda (2006). Los Otomies – Su lengua y su historia (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Instituto de investigaciones Antropológicas. ISBN 9789703233885.
Wright Carr, David Charles (2005). "Precisiones sobre el término "otomí"" (PDF). Arqueología Mexicana (in Spanish). 13 (73): 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 8, 2005. Retrieved 2006-12-06.