Chichimeca-Jonaz
[aka Chichimeco, Chichimeca, Chichimec]Classification: Otomanguean
·threatened
Classification: Otomanguean
·threatened
Chichimeco, Chichimeca, Chichimec, Chichimeca-Jonaz, Jonaz, Pame de Chichimeca-Jonaz, Meco |
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Otomanguean, Otopamean |
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ISO 639-3 |
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Information from: “Personal Communication” . Clément {Vignali Chaussabel}
In the 2000 General Census by INEGI 1,641 people named themselves as speakers of the Chichimeca Jonaz language. Of these 1,433 speakers lived in Guanajuato, and the other 115 in San Luis Potosí.
Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Chichimeca Jonaz were a nomadic people roaming North Central Mexico and the Southwestern United States and Sonoran Desert. After the Spanish Conquest of Mexico and the ensuing Spanish colonization of the Americas, they fought against Spaniards and Christianized Indians in the Chichimec Wars along with the Pames and Otomies and other Chichimecan peoples, in the Sonora y Sinaloa Province in the Provincias Internas and under the jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia of Guadalajara (Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara) of Viceroyalty of New Spain.
The Chichimeca Jonaz are a group of indigenous people living in Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí. In Guanajuato State the Chichimeca Jonaz people live in a community of San Luis de la Paz municipality. The settlement is 2,070 m above sea level. They call this place Rancho Úza (Indian Ranch) or Misión Chichimeca.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Endangered Languages in Mexico” (93-134) . Beatriz Garza Cuarón and Yolanda Lastra (1991) , R. H. Robins and E. M. Uhlenbeck · New York: Berg
San Luis de la Paz (state of Guanajuato) (Adelaar & Quesada 2007:198)