| Chiapanec | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Extinct | ca. 2000?[1] |
Oto-Mangue
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cip |
| Glottolog | chia1262 |
| ELP | Chiapanec |
Chiapanec is a presumably extinct indigenous Mexican language of the Oto-Manguean language family believed to have been spoken by the Chiapanec people. The 1990 census[2] reported 17 speakers of the language in southern Chiapas out of an ethnic population of 32, but later investigations failed to find any speakers.[3]
There are, however, a number of written sources on the language. Vocabularies and grammars based on these materials include Aguilar Penagos (2012) and Carpio-Penagos and Álvarez-Vázquez (2014).
It is closely related to Mangue.
- ^ Chiapanec at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Ethnologue report for language code:cip
- ^ LISTSERV 14.4 Archived October 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
