Tzintzuntzan Municipality
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Tzintzuntzan Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The seat is Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán.
View of Pacanda Island
Purépecha language
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Purépecha, often called Tarascan, a term coined by Spanish settlers that can be seen as pejorative to some, is a language isolate or small language family that is spoken by some 140,000 Purépecha in t
A bilingual Purépecha/Spanish school in the Purépecha community of Janitzio, Michoacán. Since Mexico's 2000 indigenous language law, indigenous languages like Purépecha share the same status as Spanish in the areas in which they are spoken, and many schools offer the curriculum in indigenous languages.
Dictionary of the Mechuacan (Michoacán, Tarascan) language, Fray Maturino Gilberti, 1559
Prayer book in the language by J. J. Apolonio Maya dated 1849 (click to browse)