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Lalana Tepinapa Chinantec

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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