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Highland Chatino

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Native to
  
Mexico

Native speakers
  
27,000 (2000)

Region
  
Oaxaca

Language family
  
Oto-Manguean (MP) Zapotecan Chatino Zacatepec–Highlands Highland Chatino

ISO 639-3
  
Variously: ctp – Western Highland cly – Eastern Highland (Lachao-Yolotepec) cya – Nopala

Glottolog
  
east2736  (= Zacatepec–Highlands)

Highland Chatino is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, one of the Chatino family of the Oto-Manguean languages. Dialects are rather diverse; Ethnologue 16 counts them as three languages as follows:

  • Eastern Highland Chatino (Lachao-Yolotepec dialect)
  • Western Chatino (Yaitepec, Panixtlahuaca, and Quiahije dialects)
  • Nopala Chatino

    • Neighboring dialects between the three groups are about 80% mutually intelligible; diversity among the three Western dialects is almost as great.

    For phonological and grammatical details, see Chatino languages, which includes examples from Yaitepec dialect.

    References

    Highland Chatino Wikipedia
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