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Cáhita is a group of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, which includes the Yaqui and Mayo people. Numbering approximately 40,000, they live in west coast of the states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
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Language
Their languages, the Yaqui and Mayo languages, form the Cáhitan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. They are agglutinative language, and words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes, with several morphemes strung together.
Population
The Cáhita population was drastically reduced by Spanish explorers.
References
Cáhita Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA