Chiapanec language

Chiapanec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Chiapas
Extinct	ca. 2000?
Language family	Oto-Mangue Manguean Chiapanec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cip`
Glottolog	`chia1262`^[1]

Chiapanec is a presumably extinct indigenous Mexican language of the Oto-Manguean language family. The 1990 census^[2] reported 17 speakers of the language in southern Chiapas out of an ethnic population of 32, but later investigations failed to find any speakers.^[3]

Notes

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chiapanec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Ethnologue report for language code:cip
↑ LISTSERV 14.4

Oto-Manguean languages

Western

Oto-Pamean	Chichimeca Jonaz Matlatzinca Mazahua Otomi Pame

Chinantecan	Chinantec varieties

Tlapanecan	Subtiaba Tlapanec

Manguean	Chiapanec Chorotega Mangue

Eastern

Popolocan	Chocho Ixcatec Mazatec varieties Popolocan

Zapotecan	Chatino Papabuco Soltec Zapotec varieties

Amuzgoan	Amuzgo

Mixtecan	Cuicatec Mixtec varieties Trique

Italics indicate extinct languages

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