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Opata language
Ă’pata (Also Eudeve, Heve, Dohema) is the name of the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Opata people of northern central Sonora in Mexico. It was believed to be dead already in 1930, and Carl Sofus Lumholtz reported thepata to have become "Mexicanized" and lost their language and customs already when travelling through Sonora in the 1890'es, but in a recent (1993) survey by the Mexican Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Now INALI) fifteen people in the Mexican Federal District self identified as speakers of Ă’pata- this may not mean however that the language is actually living, since linguistic nomenclature in Mexico is notoriously fuzzy.
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