huichol

Family Yuto-nahua

Speakers aged 3 and over

60,263

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade

Very high

INALI 2012, on 2000 census figures. The highest-risk variant is shown.

Variants by grade

Very high 1
High 0
Medium 0
No immediate risk 3

Status in Glottolog

Threatened

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 1 members with AES (1 in group): threatened=1

Digital resources

One indicator per source, measured in the snapshot of Oct 5, 2026. They are never blended into a single score.

This means the technical building blocks for language tools — translators, speech recognition, spell-checkers — not cultural content like books or music. What we count and where it comes from

Datasets

Hugging Face

datasets focused on the language

30 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source: huggingface
Recorded detail: repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups

Models

Hugging Face

models focused on the language

41 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source: huggingface
Recorded detail: repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups

Speech corpus

Common Voice

varieties with a speech corpus

Source: common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail: 1 of 1 codes covered: hch spontaneous 5.0: 10.12h validated

Treebanks

Universal Dependencies

released treebanks

Source: universal-dependencies 2.18 (2026-05-15)
Recorded detail: no treebank for any of 1 codes

Speech recognition

Omnilingual ASR

varieties supported

Source: omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail: 1 of 1 codes supported: hch_Latn

Identity

Glottocode: huic1243
ISO 639-3: hch
Match to Glottolog: Exact: one Glottolog language

Glottolog languages in this group

hch Huichol huic1243

Variants 4

From INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with each variant's risk grade (INALI, 2012).

Variant	Autonym	Risk
huichol del este	wixárika (del este)	No immediate risk
huichol del norte	wixárika (del norte)	No immediate risk
huichol del oeste	wixárika (del oeste)	Very high
huichol del sur	wixárika (del sur)	No immediate risk