Native to Mexico Ethnicity Chinantecs | Region Oaxaca Native speakers 23,000 (2000) | |
Language family Oto-Mangue
Western Oto-Mangue
Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Chinantec
Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec ISO 639-3 Either:
cnl – Lalana Chinantec
cte – Tepinapa Chinantec |
Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in 30 towns in a remote region along the Oaxaca–Veracruz border. Outlying varieties of Lalana and Tepinapa Chinantec have only marginal intelligibility with each other. A third of speakers are monolingual.
References
Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA