Highland Chatino
| Highland Chatino | |
|---|---|
| Sierra Chatino | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca |
Native speakers | 27,000 (2000)[1] |
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Oto-Manguean (MP)
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Variously: ctp – Western Highland cly – Eastern Highland (Lachao-Yolotepec) cya – Nopala |
| Glottolog |
east2736 (= Zacatepec–Highlands)[2] |
Highland Chatino is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, one of the Chatino family of the Oto-Manguean languages. Dialects are rather diverse; Ethnologue 16 counts them as three languages as follows:
- Eastern Highland Chatino (Lachao-Yolotepec dialect)
- Western Chatino (Yaitepec, Panixtlahuaca, and Quiahije dialects)
- Nopala Chatino
Neighboring dialects between the three groups are about 80% mutually intelligible; diversity among the three Western dialects is almost as great.
For phonological and grammatical details, see Chatino languages, which includes examples from Yaitepec dialect.
References
- ↑ Western Highland at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Eastern Highland (Lachao-Yolotepec) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Nopala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Chatino". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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