Also known as P'urhépecha, Tarascan, Tarasco, Phorhé, Phorhépecha, Purepecha language, Phorhe, Phorhepecha
language isolate or small language family spoken by a quarter million Purépecha in the highlands of the Mexican state of Michoacán
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Purépecha (autonym: Pʼurhépecha [pʰuˈɽepet͡ʃa] or Phorhé(pecha)), often called Tarascan (Spanish: Tarasco), a term coined by Spanish settlers that can be seen as pejorative to some, is a language isolate or small language family that is spoken by some 140,000 Purépecha in the highlands of Michoacán, Mexico.
Purépecha was the main language of the pre-Columbian Purépecha Empire and became widespread in the region during its heyday in the late post-Classic period. The small town of Purepero got its name from the indigenous people who lived there.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).