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Huave Indian Language

Huave is a Mexican language isolate, not known to be related to any other living language. It is spoken by around 16,000 people in southeastern Mexico. There are several Huave dialects, some of which are quite different from each other and difficult for speakers of a different dialect to understand. For this reason, linguists often consider there to be between two and four distinct Huave languages, rather than just one. Huave is an agglutinative language which has SVO word order.

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Huave Language Resources

Our Online Huave Materials

Huave Words
Our list of vocabulary words in the Huave language.

Huave Language Lessons and Linguistic Descriptions

Meso-American Native Languages
Map showing the areas in Mexico where Huave languages are spoken.

Lord's Prayer in Huave San Dionisio del Mar:
Translations of Christian prayers into the Huave language.

Language Museum: Huave (San Mateo del Mar):
Huave translation of a Biblical passage.

Wikipedia: Huave:
Encyclopedia article about the Huave language.

San Dionisio del Mar Huave

San Mateo del Mar Huave

Santa María del Mar Huave

San Francisco del Mar Huave:
Demographic information about the Huave languages from the Ethnologue of Languages.

Huave Language Tree:
Theories about Huave's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Huave Language Structures:
Huave linguistic profile and academic bibliography.

Links, References, and Additional Information

Endangered Languages Project: Huave:
Bibliography of Huave language resources.
Wikipedia: Huave

Britannica: Huave:
Encyclopedia articles about the Huaves.
Pueblo Huaves

Los Huaves de Oaxaca

Idioma Huave

Lengua Huave:
Information about the Huave people and their language in Spanish.

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