Endangered Languages Project - Lowland Chontal

Lowland Chontal

^{[aka Huamelultec, Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, Huamelula Chontal]}

Classification: Tequistlatecan

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Huamelultec, Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, Huamelula Chontal, Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca, Huamelulteco, Chontal (Huamelultec Oaxaca), Chontal de Oaxaca (Costa), Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, Coastal Tequistlatec, Tluamelula
CLASSIFICATION		Tequistlatecan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		clo
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS)” . Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide
SEMI SPEAKERS
1000
YOUNG ADULTS
0
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are perhaps some 100 fluent first-language speakers, all older than 70, and perhaps another 1000 semi-speakers, all older than 50 (DoBES 2006)

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
950
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1990 census.

DATE OF INFO: 1990

PLACES: Mexico;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
950
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press