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Serian Family
Seri
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The Seri language
(
cmiique iitom)
is considered a language isolate.
(Some people have proposed that is part of the Hokan stock,
but there is not much evidence to support the hypothesis.)
It is spoken in
two villages (El Desemboque del Río San Ignacio and Punta
Chueca) on the coast of the state of Sonora, Mexico. Tiburón
Island in the Gulf of California is part of the traditional Seri
homeland, and it is called Tahéjöc.
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The total Seri population was less than 200 in the 1930's. Today it is at least three times larger. The Serian family has the smallest number of speakers of any family in Mexico.
The Seri people call themselves the
comcáac
(singular:
cmiique).
Until the middle of the twentieth century they
were hunter-gatherers. Their livelihood today is based on
commercial fishing and the sale of shell necklaces, ironwood
carvings, and traditional baskets.
| Name | Ethnologue entry |
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| Seri | sei |
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