Mazahua in Mexico

Speakers

147,088

Type

Location

Mazahua in Mexico

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Mazahua in Mexico

Size

147,088

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
México, Michoacán

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
State of Mexico and Michoacan

Size / Number of users

Number of users

147088
Source
INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal
Year
2015

Users within total population

12.00000
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

12
Source
INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Users within the reference community

Less than 10% use the language
Actual percentage
1
Source
INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Age distribution of users

112,657
77
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Age distribution of users

10,665
7
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Age distribution of users

23,766
16
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Generational use

Educational attainment

24
76
36,723
No education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

42
58
604
Early childhood education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

51
49
63,955
Primary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

57
43
24,256
Lower secondary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

58
42
6,701
Higher secondary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

59
41
4,086
Tertiary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand little, speak/sign none
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand some, speak/sign little
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand well, speak/sign some
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand all, speak/sign well
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

45
55
147,088
Understand all, speak/sign fluently
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
State of Mexico and Michoacan

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion