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Purépecha

language isolate or small language family spoken by a quarter million Purépecha in the highlands of the Mexican state of Michoacán
Language language Q36803
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Summary

Purépecha is a language[1]. Purépecha ranks in the top 3% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,517 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Mexico[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Tarascan[5]
  • Wikimedia language code: pua[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Purépecha language[7]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 175,000[8]
  • UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[9]
  • Indigenous to: Purepecha[10], Michoacán[11]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TSZ[12]
  • Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[13]
  • Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[14], language isolate[15]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Purépecha-language films[16]
  • Wikimedia Incubator URL: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/pua[17]

Why It Matters

Purépecha has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Purépecha is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Mexico

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . unesco.org. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Language", "Purepecha"]
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Language", "Purepecha"], Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/53949975|Purepecha (#53949975)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/cat"
  2. 24d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ast', 'ca', 'commons', 'cv', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'fr', 'gl', 'hif',
    Native land language id → purepecha
    Sitelink count → 30
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Native land language id: purepecha, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/134394459|Purepecha (#134394459)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5126|Native Land Lan"
  3. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Mexico
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Purepecha, Michoacán
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987013157614305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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