Totozoquean languages

Totozoquean
(proposed)
Geographic
distribution
Mexico
Linguistic classificationProposed language family; perhaps related to Huavean
Subdivisions
GlottologNone

Totozoquean is a proposed language family of Mesoamerica, originally consisting of two well-established genetic groupings, Totonacan and Mixe–Zoque. The erstwhile isolate Chitimacha was later proposed to be a member. The closest relatives of Totozoquean may be the Huavean languages.[1]

  1. ^ Brown, Cecil H., Wichmann, Søren, & Beck, David. 2014. Chitimacha: A Mesoamerican language in the Lower Mississippi Valley. International Journal of American Linguistics 80(4): 425–474.