North America · ISO 639-3 pua · Glottocode west2631
Western Highland Purepecha
With shifting status and classification as a member of the Tarascan family, Western Highland Purepecha is attested in 2 source countries; the Latin label remains a verifiable CLDR assignment.
- Language family
- Tarascan
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- shifting
- Macroarea
- North America
- Source country codes
- MX · US
- Reference point
- 19.539, -102.154
Open research question
How do speakers of Western Highland Purepecha describe their varieties, relationships to place, and priorities for documentation or revitalisation?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.