Chinantec, Usila

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Chinanteco del Oeste Central Alto

Jaú jm_, Jmiih kia’ dzä jii’

7,410 (2000 INALI). Total Chinantec speakers: 144,000 (2020 INEGI). 2,200 monolinguals.

Oaxaca state: San Felipe Usila plus 12 towns; Pueblo Doce, Veracruz.

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6a (Vigorous).

None known. 48% intelligibility of Tlacoatzintepec [ctl] (most similar), 33% of Palantla [cpa], 32% of Sochiapan [cso], 31% of Ojitlán [chj].

VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal.

Used by all. Also use Spanish [spa].

Literacy rate in L1: 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 20%. Dictionary. Texts. NT: 1983.

Latin script [Latn].