Native to Mexico Ethnicity Chinantecs | Region Oaxaca Highlands | |
Native speakers (10,000 cited 1990–1998) Language family Oto-Mangue
Western Oto-Mangue
Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Chinantec
Highland Chinantec Dialects Quiotepec Chinantec
Comaltepec Chinantec
Yolox Chinantec | ||
Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec, and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca. It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent.
References
Highland Chinantec language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA