Chontal, Highland Oaxaca

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ISO 639-3
chd
Alternate Names
Chontal de Oaxaca Alto, Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca, Highland Chontal, Tequistlatec, Tsame
Autonym
Tsome
User Population

2,200 (2000 INALI).

Location

Oaxaca state: San José Chiltepec, San Lucas Ixcatepec, and 15 towns west of Tehuantepec isthmus.

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Language Status

8a (Moribund).

Classification
Tequistlatecan
Dialects

Chontal de Oaxaca alto, Chontal de Oaxaca bajo.

Typology

VS, SV, or VO; medium long words, affixes; nontonal.

Language Use

Older adults only. Shifted to Spanish [spa].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: 60%–100%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Literature. Dictionary. Grammar. Texts. NT: 1991.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Chontal, Highland Oaxaca
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

‘Tequistlateco’ has been used in publications, but true Tequistlateco was spoken in Tequisistlán town, and is now extinct.