Chinantec, Tepetotutla

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Chinanteco del Oeste Central Bajo, Jejmei

Jajmi dzä kï ï’, Jejmi

1,850 (2000 INALI). Total Chinantec speakers: 144,000 (2020 INEGI).

Oaxaca state: El Naranjal, San Antonio del Barrio, San Pedro Tlatepusco, Santa Cruz Tepetotutla, Santo Tomás Texas, and Vega del Sol.

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6a (Vigorous).

60% intelligibility of Quiotepec [chq], 59% of Palantla [cpa], 48% of Yolox dialect of Quiotepec Chinantec [chq].

VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal.

Used by all.

Literature. Grammar. NT: 1994.

Latin script [Latn].