Endangered Languages Project - Central Chinantec

Central Chinantec

^{[aka jajme dzä mii, jmiih kia' dzä mii, Chinanteco ...]}

Classification: Otomanguean

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		jajme dzä mii, jmiih kia' dzä mii, Chinanteco Central, Usila Chinantec, Valle Nacional Chinantec, Chiltepec Chinantec, Lealao Chinantec, Palantla Chinantec, Chinantec, Chinanteco, Chinanteko
CLASSIFICATION		Otomanguean, Chinantecan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cuc, cvn, csa, cle, cpa
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		jajme dzä mii jmiih kia' dzä mii
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Some sources list up to 14 different Chinantec languages. According to the most recent and accurate sources available, there are 11 different Chinantec languages, with 20 different dialects. (INALI 2009)

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
34,852
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number gathered from several language entries in Ethnologue.

MORE ON VITALITY

No monolinguals

PLACES: Mexico

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in San Felipe Usila; San José Chiltepec; the San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional region, specifically: San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional; San Juan Lealao; San Juan Palantla

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

17.949463,-96.167328

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Information from: “Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas” . Instituto Nacional de las Lenguas Indígena (INALI) (2009)