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The Otomi of Mezquital or (Hñähñu) maintained a state of war upon the Spanish and their Ixtenco otomi allies with records indicating that the hñähñu (Otomi of Mezquital) resisted assimilation and maintained nomadic raiding parties that attacked any Spanish settlement within Hidalgo maintaining a state of war that lasted until the first ...
The town of Ixmiquilpan is the center of the Mezquital Valley, especially its Otomi population. [15] The center of this town is its parish church, named after the Archangel Michael . It is noted for its large series of murals done in the 16th century by native artists depicting Eagle and Jaguar warriors in battle, along with other pre-Hispanic ...
Chilcuautla (Otomi: ʼMiza) is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 231.3 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 15,284. [1] In 2017 there were 6,915 inhabitants who spoke an indigenous language, [2] primarily Mezquital Otomi. [3]
Otomi comes from the Nahuatl word otomitl, which in turn possibly derived from an older word, totomitl "shooter of birds." [3] It is an exonym; the Otomi refer to their language as Hñähñú, Hñähño, Hñotho, Hñähü, Hñätho, Hyųhų, Yųhmų, Ñųhų, Ñǫthǫ, or Ñañhų, depending on the dialect.
Mezquital Otomi (Otomí del Valle del Mezquital). The autonym is Hñahñu [2] It is spoken in the state of Hidalgo, especially in the Mezquital Valley, by 100,000 people. There are also some migrant worker expatriates in the United States in the states of Texas (270), Oklahoma (230), and North Carolina (100). A dictionary and grammar of the ...
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