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Chiapanec language

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Native to
  
Mexico

Extinct
  
ca. 2000?

Glottolog
  
chia1262

Region
  
Chiapas

ISO 639-3
  
cip

Language family
  
Oto-Mangue Manguean Chiapanec

Chiapanec is a presumably extinct indigenous Mexican language of the Oto-Manguean language family. The 1990 census reported 17 speakers of the language in southern Chiapas out of an ethnic population of 32, but later investigations failed to find any speakers.

There are, however, a number of written sources on the language. Vocabularies and grammars based on these materials include Aguilar Penagos (2012) and Carpio-Penagos and Álvarez-Vázquez (2014).

It is closely related to Mangue.

References

Chiapanec language Wikipedia