Definitions
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- proper n. An Oto-Manguean language and one of the indigenous languages of Mexico, spoken by around 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the central altiplano region of Mexico.
- n. 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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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.
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Today three major Indian groups of the Huasteca region - the Nahua, Otomi, and Tepeha - still make the amate paper.
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Even as late as 1889 persecution against the Otomi people of Hidalgo for papermaking was recorded.
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One of their main pieces of new evidence was linguistic: they pointed out that indigenous groups in Mexico, including the Otomi and Nahua, coined their own words for sunflower, instead of borrowing them from the Spanish.
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In this very small village in Hidalgo the Otomi speak Nahuatl.
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One of the local Otomi noted that she didn't speak much Catalan - an old reference to spanish.
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Señors, my lady mother, who bore me was an Otomi indian, but I am the acknowledged illegitimate son of my honored Señor Padre.
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Asking an old Otomi whether he knew about this paper, he answered us, with great cunning, that we probably knew as much of it as he did.
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