Yaqui

Yaqui (Yoem Noki)

Yaqui or Yoeme is an Uto-Aztecan language with about 16,000
speakers in Sonora and Sinaloa in Mexico, and in Tucson and
Guadalupe in Arizona in the USA. The majority of Yaqui speakers,
or Pascua-Yaqui, live in Mexico.

Yaqui pronunciation

These are the letters used to write Yaqui in Arizona.

Yaqui pronuciation

Notes

D, F and G are used only in loanwords from Spanish and English.

In Mexico some of the letters used to write Yaqui are different,
for example /h/ is written with J.

Some Yaqui phrases used for Greetings

  • Lios em chania (sg) / Lios em chaniavu (pl) – Greetings! (lit. “God preserves you!”)
  • Lios em chiokoe – reply to above, (lit. “God pardons you!”)
  • Empo allea – May you rejoice!
  • Kettu’i – How kind!

Links

Information about the Yaqui language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqui_language
http://www.native-languages.org/yaqui.htm

Yaqui vocabulary
http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/32

Pascua Yaqui Tribe
http://www.pascuayaqui-nsn.gov

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