Tepehuas
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The Tepehuas are an Indigenous people of Mexico who are based in Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Puebla. They speak Tepehua languages, which belong to the Totonacan language family.
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Vinony files it under Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Mesoamerican cultures.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Tepehuas
- Ethnic group.image
- Tepehua location map.svg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Tepehua location map
- Ethnic group.population
- 16,051
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Mexico (Hidalgo, Veracruz, Puebla)
- Ethnic group.religions
- Indigenous religion, Christianity
- Ethnic group.languages
- Tepehua languages, Spanish
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Tepehuas are an Indigenous people of Mexico who are based in Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Puebla. They speak Tepehua languages, which belong to the Totonacan language family.
== Name == Their name in Nahuatl translated to "people of the mountain". They also use endoethnonyms that originate in Spanish-influenced Nahuatl: masipijní: the Tepehua people hamasipiní: who lives on a hill hamasip: owners of hills
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