Temoaya Otomi

Temoaya Otomi
Toluca Otomí
Otomi de San Andrés Cuexcontitlan
Ñatho
RegionMexico:Mexico state
Native speakers
(37,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Dialects
  • Temoaya
  • Toluca
Official status
Regulated bySecretaría de Educación Pública
Language codes
ISO 639-3ott
Glottologtemo1245

Temoaya Otomi, also known as Toluca Otomi or Otomi of San Andrés Cuexcontitlan, is a variety of the Otomi language spoken in Mexico by ca. 37,000 people in and around the municipality of Temoaya, and in three communities within the municipality of Toluca: San Andrés Cuexcontitlán, San Pablo Autopan and San Cristobal Huichochitlan. The two varieties are quite different. The speakers themselves call the language Ñatho.[2] Lastra (2001) classifies it as a southwestern dialect along with the dialects of Mexico state. Lastra also notes that the endangered Otomí dialect of San Felipe in eastern Michoacán is most similar to the Otomí spoken in San Andrés Cuexcontitlan.

  1. ^ Temoaya Otomi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Lastra (2006:57)