Explore: Purépecha Language

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

city was Tzintzuntzan. Purépecha architecture is noted for step pyramids in the shape of the letter "T". Pre-Columbian Purépecha artisans made feather

for the Purépecha Empire, Michuacān from mich- ("fish"), -ua ("possessor of"), and -cān ("place of") and means "place of fishers." The Purépecha Empire

Purépecha are an indigenous people of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Purépecha may also refer to: Purépecha language, the language of the Purépecha Purépecha

1500s, located in (present-day) west-central Mexico the Purépecha people the Purépecha language The term has pejorative connotations of "loathsomeness

Pelota purépecha (Spanish for "Purépecha ball"), called Uárukua Ch'anakua ( "a game with sticks") in the Purépecha language, is an Indigenous Mexican sport

and Teco peoples as well as the Purépecha. The main pre-Hispanic civilization of the state is that of the Purépecha, which was centered in the Lake Pátzcuaro

languages Yana/Yahi and other Hokan languages Mayan languages Totonacan languages Mixe-Zoquean languages Purépecha language Tequistlatecan languages Huave

Uto-Aztecan and Chibchan languages (only on the southern border of the area) – as well as a few smaller families and isolates – Purépecha, Huave, Tequistlatec

Zihuatanejo has two possible origins. One origin might be from the Purépecha language meaning "water of the yellow mountain"; another possible origin might