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Huarijio
Varihío, Guarijío
Warihó, Warihío
Native to	Mexico
Region	Chihuahua,Sonora
Ethnicity	Huarijio people
Native speakers	2,100 (2020 census)[1]
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Southern Uto-Aztecan Tarahumaran Huarijio
Dialects	Mountain (Wariho) River (Makurawe)
Official status
Regulated by	Secretaría de Educación Pública
Language codes
ISO 639-3	var
Glottolog	huar1255
ELP	Guarijío
Huarijio
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Huarijio (Huarijío in Spanish; also spelledGuarijío,Varihío, andWarihío) is aUto-Aztecan language of the states ofChihuahua andSonora in northwesternMexico. It is spoken by around 2,100Huarijio people, most of whom are monolinguals.

The language has two variants, known as Mountain Guarijio(guarijío de la sierra) and River Guarijio(guarijío del río). The mountain variant is spoken in the Chihuahuan municipalities ofChínipas (settlements of Agua Caliente, Arroyo de la Yerba, Benjamín M. Chaparro (Santa Ana),Chínipas de Almada, El Manzanillal, El Trigo de Russo (El Trigo), El Triguito, Guazizaco, Ignacio Valenzuela (Loreto), Los Alamillos de Loreto, Los Llanitos, and Los Pinos),Moris (settlements of Bermudez, Casa Quemada, El Campo Mayo, El Gavilán, El Pilar, El Saucito (De Beltrán), La Cieneguita de Rodríguez, La Finca de Pesqueira, Los Terreros, Mesa Colorada,Moris, Río Santa María, Santa María Grande, Sierra Obscura (El Serruchito), and Trompa), andUruachi (settlements of Arechuyvo (Arechuivo), Aremeyvo, Arroyo Seco, Batopilillas, Boca Arroyo del Carrizo (Hornitos), Cachabachi, Cerro Blanco, Cuiteco, Chacharachi, Chagayvo, Chiltepín, El Barro, El Bosque,El Carrizo, El Cuzal, El Metate, El Pinito, El Revaje, Gosogachi, Guasaremos, Jecopaco, Jicamorachi, La Barranca, La Cueva de Diego, La Cumbre, La Mesa de Cereachi, La Nopalera, La Reforma, Las Pilas, Los Hornitos, Los Lajeros, Los Laureles, Mesa Quemada, Mocorichi de Arriba, Noriego, Pacayvo, Palmarito (Agua Caliente), San Juan, San Luis, Saucillo de Rico, Sipachi, Tesos, Tojiachi de Abajo, Toribisachi,Uruachi, and Venustiano Carranza (San Luis de Babarocos)).

The river variant is found in the Sonoran municipalities ofÁlamos (settlements of Bavícora, Burapaco, Casas Coloradas, Chorijoa, El Chalate, El Sauz, Guajaray, Huataturi, Jobeg I, La Sauceda, La Tribuna, Los Estrados, Mesa Colorada, Mochibampo, Ranch Nuevo,San Bernardo, Sejaqui, andTecoripa) andQuiriego (settlements ofBatacosa, El Frijolar, Los Bajíos (Ejido los Conejos), andQuiriego).^[2]

Speakers of Mountain Guarijio self-identify asWarihó and call River Guarijio speakersmacurawe ormakulái. River Guarijio speakers call themselvesWarihío and call Mountain speakers "tarahumaras". Contact between the two groups is scant and, although the linguistic differences between the two are slight, speakers report that mutual comprehension is difficult.

Guarijio is anagglutinative language, where words are morphologically complex to accomplish various grammatical purposes, i.e. severalmorphemes are strung together. The Guarijio languagetypologically has the tendency to show a final verb order. However, the word order in Guarijio is rather free.^[3]

The consonant inventory includes:^[3]

The vowel inventory includes:/i/,/e/,/a/,/o/,/u/.

Programming in Guarijio is carried by theCDI's radio stationXEETCH, broadcasting fromEtchojoa, Sonora.

• Felix Armendariz, Rolando Gpe (2005).A grammar of River Warihio (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). Rice University.hdl:1911/18900.

Huarijio language test ofWikipedia atWikimedia Incubator

• Lengua Guarijio (In Spanish)

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