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The Yaqui or Yoeme are Native Americans who inhabit the valley of the Río Yaqui in the Mexican state of Sonora and the Southwestern United States. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe is based in Tucson, Arizona. Yaqui people also live elsewhere in the southwestern United States, especially Nevada and California. ==Language== The Yaqui language belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language family. Yaqui speak a Cahitan language, a group of about 10 mutually-intelligible languages formerly spoken in much of the states of Sonora and Sinaloa. Most of the Cahitan languages are extinct. Only the Yaqui and Mayo still speak their language.〔Hu-Dehart, Evelyn ''Missionaries Miners and Indians: Spanish Contact with the Yaqui Nation of Northwestern New Spain.'' Tucson: U of AZ Press, 1981, p. 10〕 About 15,000 Yaqui speakers live in Mexico and 1,000 in the United States, mostly Arizona.〔Guerrero, Lilian. "Grammatical Borrowing in Yaqui." http://lilianguerrero.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/1/3/2813317/estrada__guerrero-yaqui_borrowing.pdf, accessed 5 May 2012〕 The Yaqui call themselves ''Hiaki'' or ''Yoeme'', the Yaqui word for person (''yoemem'' or ''yo'emem'' meaning "people").〔"Yaqui." U *X *L Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. U *X *L. 2008. Retrieved August 14, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3048800047.html〕 The Yaqui call their homeland ''Hiakim'', from which some say the name "Yaqui" is derived. They may also describe themselves as Hiaki Nation or ''Pascua Hiaki'', meaning "The Easter People", as most had converted to Catholicism under Jesuit influence in colonial Mexico. Many folk etymologies account for how the ''Yoeme'' came to be known as the "Yaqui".〔"Yaqui." Every Culture. http://www.everyculture.com/Middle-America-Caribbean/Yaqui-Orientation.html, accessed 6 May 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「yaqui」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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