Tilapa Otomi

Tilapa Otomi is a seriously endangered native American language spoken by less than a dozen people in the village of Santiago Tilapa, between Toluca and the DF in Mexico State. It has been classified as Eastern Otomi by Lastra (2006).[1] but in reality "Eastern Otomi" in Lastra's classification is a broader term for a "conservative variety". It is a language closely related to Acazulco and Atlapulco Otomi. It also shows a number of idiosyncratic innovations which make it stand as a different language, probably the closest one to Colonial Otomi. Its system of verbal conjugations is highly complex compared to the Mezquital varieties.[3]

Tilapa Otomi
Ñųhų
Native toMexico
RegionSantiago Tilapa
Native speakers
100 (2006)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3otl
Glottologtila1239[2]

Notes

  1. Lastra, Yolanda (2006). Los Otomies – Su lengua y su historia (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Instituto de investigaciones Antropológicas. ISBN 9789703233885.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tilapa Otomi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Palancar, Enrique (2012). "The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi: An approach from canonical typology" (PDF). Linguistics. 50 (4).
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