Palantla Chinantec

Palantla Chinantec
Tlatepuzco Chinantec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
EthnicityChinantecs
Native speakers
25,000 (2007)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
cpa – Palantla Chinantec
cvn – Valle Nacional Chinantec
Glottologpala1351  Palantla
vall1253  Valle Nacional
ELPLower Central Chinantec

Palantla Chinantec, also known as Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, has marginal mutual intelligibility.

A grammar and a dictionary have been published.[2][3]

  1. ^ Palantla Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Valle Nacional Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Merrifield, William R. 1968. Palantla Chinantec grammar. Papeles de la Chinantla 5, Serie Científica 9.México: Museo Nacional de Antropología. [1]
  3. ^ Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 2007. Diccionario Chinanteco de la diáspora del pueblo antiguo de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, Oaxaca. [2nd Edition]. Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 39. Mexico DF: Summer Linguistic Institute. [2].