Highland Chatino

Highland Chatino is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, one of the Chatino family of the Oto-Manguean languages. Dialects are rather diverse; Ethnologue 16 counts them as three languages as follows:

  • Eastern Highland Chatino (Lachao-Yolotepec dialect)
  • Western Chatino (Yaitepec, Panixtlahuaca, and Quiahije dialects)
  • Nopala Chatino
Highland Chatino
Sierra Chatino
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
17,800 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean (MP)
  • Zapotecan
    • Chatino
      • Zacatepec–Highlands
        • Highland Chatino
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
ctp – Western Highland
cly – Eastern Highland (Lachao-Yolotepec)
cya – Nopala
Glottologeast2736  = Zacatepec–Highlands[2]

Neighboring dialects between the three groups are about 80% mutually intelligible; diversity among the three Western dialects is almost as great.

For phonological and grammatical details, see Chatino languages, which includes examples from Yaitepec dialect.

References
  1. Western Highland at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
    Eastern Highland (Lachao-Yolotepec) at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
    Nopala at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Chatino". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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