’urhépecha is spoken by over 100,000 people in the highlands of the state of Michoacán, Mexico, making it one of the country’s largest Indigenous languages spoken outside the diverse southern states. A number of dialects have been identified, and Ethnologue distinguishes two separate languages (P’urhépecha and Western Highland P’urhépecha), but there is considerable intelligibility between almost all varieties of the languages. P’urhépecha is a language isolate, with no demonstrated connection to any other language. Michoacán remains the language's homeland, but speakers have been migrating far and wide recently in search of economic opportunity, recently arriving in significant numbers in California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Several thousand Purehpecha speakers have come to the United States in the last three decades, primarily to Riverside County, California, parts of Florida, and the area around York, Pennsylvania, often working in agriculture. Endangered Language Alliance collaborator Alexis Paz, who is originally from Ocumicho in Michoacán and grew up in York, Pennsylvania, may be the only speaker of P'urhépecha currently in New York City. Read more here.