Tarahumara

[ tahr-uh-hoo-mahr-uh, tar- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural Ta·ra·hu·ma·ras, (especially collectively) Ta·ra·hu·ma·ra

a member of an Indigenous people of the Sierra Madre region of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
the Uto-Aztecan language of the Tarahumara.

First recorded in 1870–75; of uncertain origin

Apatschee, a nation 'welche um ganz Neu-Biscaya, und auch an Tarahumara grnzet.'

The Tarahumara language of Sonora offers an almost parallel instance.

For the Spanish hueco, the Tarahumara hoco; for tutano, the Cora ttana.

For the French casser, we find the Tarahumara cassnaler; for ttonner, the Tepehuana tatame.

Hervas, whose work appeared in 1787, says that the Tarahumara language is full of Mexican words.

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