Northwestern Otomi

Northwestern Otomi
Native to México
Region Hidalgo, Querétaro, México
Native speakers
(130,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
ote  Mezquital Otomi
otq  Querétaro Otomi
Glottolog nort3201[2]

Northwestern Otomi is a native American language of central Mexico.

Varieties

There are two varieties with limited (c. 78%) intelligibility, sometimes considered separate languages:

Notes

  1. Mezquital Otomi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Querétaro Otomi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Northwestern Otomi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Lastra 2006 p. 57, Wright Carr 2005
  4. Lastra 2006 p. 57

Cited works


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