Chinantec | |
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Tsa Jujmi | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca |
Ethnicity | Chinantecs |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2020 census)[1] |
Oto-Manguean
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:cco – Comaltepec Chinantecchj – Ojitlán Chinantecchq – Quiotepec Chinantecchz – Ozumacín Chinanteccle – Lealao Chinanteccnl – Lalana Chinanteccnt – Tepetotutla Chinanteccpa – Palantla Chinanteccsa – Chiltepec Chinanteccso – Sochiapan Chinanteccte – Tepinapa Chinantecctl – Tlacoatzintepec Chinanteccuc – Usila Chinanteccvn – Valle Nacional Chinantec |
Glottolog | chin1484 |
ELP | Central Chinantec |
The Chinantecan languages, number 9 (chartreuse), east. |
The Chinantec or Chinantecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean family. Though traditionally considered a single language, Ethnologue lists 14 partially mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinantec.[2] The languages are spoken by the indigenous Chinantec people who live in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, especially in the districts of Cuicatlán, Ixtlán de Juárez, Tuxtepec and Choapan, and in Staten Island, New York.[3]