Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec

Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Ethnicity Chinantecs
Native speakers
23,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue

    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
cnl  Lalana Chinantec
cte  Tepinapa Chinantec
Glottolog lala1270  (Lalana)[2]
tepi1241  (Tepinapa)[3]

Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in 30 towns in a remote region along the OaxacaVeracruz border. Outlying varieties of Lalana and Tepinapa Chinantec have only marginal intelligibility with each other. A third of speakers are monolingual.

References

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