Corachol languages

Corachol
Geographic; distribution	western Mexico
Linguistic classification	Uto-Aztecan
Subdivisions	Cora; Huichol;
Glottolog	cora1259[1]

Corachol (alternatively Coracholan, Cora-Huichol or Coran) is a grouping of languages within the Uto-Aztecan language family. The living members of Coracholan are the Huichol and Cora languages, spoken by communities in Jalisco and Nayarit, states in central Mexico. Cazcan (Chichimeca) may have belonged as well.

Corachol languages are Mesoamerican languages, and display many of the traits defined by the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, or sprachbund.

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Corachol". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Corachol". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.