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ISO 639-3 · tsztsz
unclassified
Purepecha
Purepecha is a language, spoken in Mexico. Wikidata counts about 175,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “language isolate or small language family spoken by a quarter million Purépecha in the highlands of the Mexican state of Michoacán”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tsz- Glottocode
pure1242- Family
- unclassified
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Wikipedia
- 30 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
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5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Purepecha |
|---|---|
| Also called | P'urhépecha, Tarascan, Tarasco, Phorhé, Phorhépecha |
| All speakers | 175,000 |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelwhere it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Mexico
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