Chinantec, Quiotepec

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A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3
chq
Alternate Names
Highland Chinantec
Autonym
juu jmiih
User Population

8,000 (1998). Total Chinantec speakers: 144,000 (2020 INEGI). 1,750 monolinguals.

Location

Oaxaca state: Etla district, San Juan Bautista Atatlah; Ixtlán district, San Juan Quiotepec, Reforma, Maninaltepec, San Pedro Yolox, and Rosario Temextitlán.

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Language Status

6a* (Vigorous).

Classification
Otomanguean, Western Otomanguean, Oto-Pame-Chinantecan, Chinantecan
Dialects

Yolox Chinanteco. 87% intelligibility of Comaltepec [cco] (most similar, less similar in outlying areas), 7% of Tepetotutla [cnt]. Highland Chinantec languages share a complexity of vowel length and tone extensions that Tepetotutla [cnt] and Palantla [cpa] do not have.

Typology

VSO; short words, affixes; tonal.

Language Development

Grammar. Texts. NT: 1983.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Chinantec, Quiotepec
Writing

Latin script [Latn].