Eastern Chatino

Highland Chatino
Sierra Chatino
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
(17,800 cited 2000)
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
ctp – Western Highland
cly – Eastern Highland (Lachao-Yolotepec)
cya – Nopala
ctz – Zacatepec
Glottologeast2736
ELPWestern Highland Chatino

Highland Chatino is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, one of the Chatino family of the Oto-Manguean languages. Dialects are rather diverse; neighboring dialects are about 80% mutually intelligible.

For grammatical details, see Chatino languages, which includes examples from Yaitepec dialect.

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