Native to Mexico Ethnicity Chinantecs | Region Oaxaca Native speakers 25,000 (2007) | |
Language family Oto-Mangue
Western Oto-Mangue
Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Chinantec
Palantla Chinantec ISO 639-3 Either:
cpa – Palantla Chinantec
cvn – Valle Nacional Chinantec | ||
Palantla Chinantec, also known as Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, has marginal mutual intelligibility.
A grammar and a dictionary have been published.
The language is unusual in having, for some speakers, a three-way contrast between non-nasalized, lightly nasalized, and heavily nasalized vowels.
References
Palantla Chinantec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA