I have worked with speakers of two Otomí languages, both called Yühü by their speakers. In 2009 I began working in San Jerónimo Acazulco in the municipality of Ocoyoacac, Estado de México. Here I worked mostly with Don Feliciano Soler Cesario and Doña Trinidad Beltrán Gómez. I recorded narratives and studied vocabulary and grammar. I collaborated with linguists Néstor Hernández Green, Ditte Boeg Thomsen and Rory Turnbull, among others. In 2020 I visited the community of San Pablito in Puebla, and worked there for several days collecting documentation of spatial grammar. Most of my work on Otomí languages remains unpublished, except for one article on spatial grammar and landscape (Boeg Thomsen & Pharao Hansen 2015, “Lenguaje del paisaje: Testimonios lingüísticos del otomí de Acazulco”) and one on language revitalization (Pharao Hansen, Hernández-Green, Turnbull & Boeg Thomsen 2016, “Life Histories, Language Attitudes and Linguistic Variation: Navigating the Micropolitics of Language Revitalization in an Otomí Community in Mexico”, in Pérez Báez, Rogers & Labrada (eds.), Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts, pp. 215–246, Mouton de Gruyter). At Brown University I wrote my MA thesis about kinship terminology and ideas of care and kinship in San Jerónimo Acazulco.
