Cahita

Cáhita
Total population
40,000
Regions with significant populations
Mexico ( Sonora)
Languages
Cahita (Yaqui, Mayo)
Related ethnic groups
Mayo people, Yaqui people

Cáhita is a group of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, which includes the Yaqui and Mayo people. Numbering approximately 40,000, they live in west coast of the states of Sonora and Sinaloa.

Their languages, the Yaqui and Mayo languages, form the Cáhitan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. They are agglutinative language, and words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes, with several morphemes strung together.

The Cáhita population was drastically reduced by Spanish explorers.