Lealao Chinantec

Lealao Chinantec
Latani Chinantec
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Ethnicity Chinantecs
Native speakers
unknown (2,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue

    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cle
Glottolog leal1235[2]

Lealao (Chinanteco de San Juan Lealao), also known as Latani, is the most divergent of the Chinantecan languages of Mexico. It is spoken in northeast Oaxaca, in the towns of San Juan Lealao, Latani, Tres Arroyos, and La Hondura.

References

  1. Lealao Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lealao Chinantec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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