Native to Nicaragua, Honduras Native speakers 9,000 (1997–2009) | Ethnicity Sumo people | |
Region Huaspuc River and its tributaries Language family Misumalpan
Sumalpan
Sumo ISO 639-3 sum – inclusive code
Individual codes:
yan – Mayangna
ulw – Ulwa | ||
Sumo (also known as Sumu) is the collective name for a group of Misumalpan languages spoken in Nicaragua and Honduras. Hale & Salamanca (2001) classify the Sumu languages into a northern Mayangna, composed of the Tawahka and Panamahka dialects, and southern Ulwa. Sumu specialist Ken Hale considers the differences between Ulwa and Mayangna in both vocabulary and morphology to be so considerable that he prefers to speak of Ulwa as a language distinct from the northern Sumu varieties.
References
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