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- proper noun An
Oto-Manguean language and one of the indigenous languages ofMexico , spoken by around 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the central altiplano region ofMexico . - noun A person who speaks this language.
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Examples
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Most of the few thousand inhabitants of Honey are of Otomi Indian descent.
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Most of the few thousand inhabitants of Honey are of Otomi Indian descent.
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Today three major Indian groups of the Huasteca region - the Nahua, Otomi, and Tepeha - still make the amate paper.
Amate Art of Mexico - (Where the Secular Meets the Sacred) 2007
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Today three major Indian groups of the Huasteca region - the Nahua, Otomi, and Tepeha - still make the amate paper.
Amate Art of Mexico - (Where the Secular Meets the Sacred) 2007
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Even as late as 1889 persecution against the Otomi people of Hidalgo for papermaking was recorded.
Amate Art of Mexico - (Where the Secular Meets the Sacred) 2007
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It was during one of his excursions that he learned that the craft of papermaking had survived and was being made in the Otomi village of San Pablito, Hidalgo.
Amate Art of Mexico - (Where the Secular Meets the Sacred) 2007
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Queretaro was founded by the Spanish in 1531 on the site of a village of the Otomi Indians which, in turn, probably dated from around 1427.
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It was during one of his excursions that he learned that the craft of papermaking had survived and was being made in the Otomi village of San Pablito, Hidalgo.
Amate Art of Mexico - (Where the Secular Meets the Sacred) 2007
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Queretaro was founded by the Spanish in 1531 on the site of a village of the Otomi Indians which, in turn, probably dated from around 1427.
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Even as late as 1889 persecution against the Otomi people of Hidalgo for papermaking was recorded.
Amate Art of Mexico - (Where the Secular Meets the Sacred) 2007
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