Highland Chatino

Highland Chatino
Sierra Chatino
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
27,000 (2000)[1]
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:

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

  1. Western Highland at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Eastern Highland (Lachao-Yolotepec) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nopala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Chatino". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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