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.

Download an alphabet chart for Yaqui (Excel)

Some Yaqui phrases used for Greetings

Sample video in Yaqui

Information about Yaqui | Numbers

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

Uto-Aztecan languages

Comanche, Cora, Hopi, Huarijio, Huichol, Ivilyuat / Cahuilla, Kawaiisu, Luiseño, Mayo, Mono, O'odham, Nahuatl, Nawat (Pipil), Northern Paiute, Serrano, Shoshone, Southern Paiute, Tarahumara, Tepehuán (Northern), Tepehuán (Southeastern), Tepehuán (Southwestern), Timbisha, Tongva, Yaqui

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 23.04.21

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