Did you know Lower Central Chinantec is threatened?

Some sources refer to this language as "Valle Nacional Chinantec," probably because it is spoken in San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional. However, other Chinantec languages are also spoken in San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional. In order to distinguish between them, the most recent data from the Mexican federal government refers to this variety as "Chinanteco central bajo." The primary name provided here is an English translation of the language's most current name in Spanish.

ALSO KNOWN AS		Chinanteco central bajo, Chinantec, Chinanteko, Chinanteco, Valle Nacional Chinantec, j+g dsa k+, j+g ki tsomän, jumi dsa iin+n
CLASSIFICATION		Otomanguean, Chinantecan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cvn
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		j+g dsa k+ j+g ki tsomän jumi dsa iin+n
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Chinantecan is a subfamily with several languages; Ethnologue has 14 Chinantec languages; INALI has 11 Chinantec "variantes." [cvn] is Ethnologue's Valle Nacional Chinantec. Other Chinantec languages, Central Chinantec and Sierra Chinantec, are also spoken in San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional, so the same ISO code corresponds to all three languages (Sierra and Central each correspond to several ISO codes).

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: 1990 census

DATE OF INFO: 1990

PLACES: Mexico;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: North Oaxaca, San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional; mainly San Mateo Yetla

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,500
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Mexico

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Central Bajo is spoken in San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
442
Native speakers worldwide

3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger		UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	442		100-999		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			17.7747,-96.3034
	2009	Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas				http://www.inali.gob.mx/clin-inali/html/v_lacandon.html	Instituto Nacional de las Lenguas Indígena (INALI)	Instituto Nacional de las Lenguas Indígena (INALI). 2009. "Catálogo De Las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales: Variantes Lingüísticas De México Con Sus Autodenominaciones Y Referencias Geoestadísticas." Online: http://www.inali.gob.mx/clin-inali/html/v_lacandon.html.							Mexico	Central Bajo is spoken in San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional.	17.772269,-96.310469
		World Oral Literature Project				http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		1,500		1000-9999		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	1,500	1990	1000-9999	Speaker number data: 1990 census	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Mexico;	North Oaxaca, San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional; mainly San Mateo Yetla

Lower Central Chinantec

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Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,500

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,500

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

442

Discussion

Lower Central Chinantec

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,500

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,500

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

442

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