Corachol (alternatively Coracholan, Cora-Huichol or Coran) is a grouping of
language
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s within the
Uto-Aztecan language family
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. The living members of Coracholan are the
Huichol
The Huichol or Wixárika are an indigenous people of Mexico and the United States living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, as well as in the United States in the states of California ...
and
Cora languages, spoken by communities in
Jalisco and
Nayarit
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, states in central
Mexico
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.
Cazcan (Chichimeca) may have belonged as well.
Corachol languages are
Mesoamerican languages, and display many of the traits defined by the
Mesoamerican linguistic area The Mesoamerican language area is a ''sprachbund'' containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. This sprachbund is defined by an array of syntactic, lexical and phonological traits as well as a number of ethn ...
, or ''
sprachbund''.
References
Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
Mesoamerican languages
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