Tequistlatecan languages

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Not to be confused with Chontal Maya language.

Tequistlatec

Chontal

Geographic Oaxaca

distribution

Native speakers 5,600 (2020 census)[1]

(not counting 1,700 speakers of unidentified

"Chontal")[1]

Linguistic classification Hokan ?

 Tequistlatec

Subdivisions Highland Chontal

Coastal Chontal

Glottolog tequ1244

The Tequistlatecan languages are in Mexico at the left of the map.

Tequistlatec, also called Chontal, are three close but distinct languages spoken or
once spoken by the Chontal people of Oaxaca State, Mexico.
Chontal was spoken by 6,000 or so people in 2020. [1]

Contents

 1Languages
 2Name
 3Classification
 4See also
 5Notes
 6References

Languages[edit]
 Huamelultec (Lowland Oaxaca Chontal),
 Tequistlatec (extinct),
 Highland Oaxaca Chontal.

Name[edit]
Although most authors use the form tequistlatec(an) today, this is based on an improper
derivation in Nahuatl (the correct derivation from Tequisistlán would be Tequisistec(an),
and both terms were used by Sapir interchangeably).

Classification[edit]
The Tequistlatecan languages are part of the proposed Hokan family, but are often
considered to be a distinct family. Campbell and Oltrogge (1980) proposed that the
Tequistlatecan languages may be related to Jicaquean (see Tolatecan), but this
hypothesis has not been generally accepted.

See also[edit]
 Huamelultec vocabulary list on the Spanish Wikipedia

Notes[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:      Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más,
a b c

2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.

References[edit]
 Campbell, Lyle and Oltrogge, David. 1980. Proto-Tol
(Jicaque). International Journal of American Linguistics,
46:205-223
  Campbell, Lyle. 1979. "Middle American languages." In L.
Campbell & M. Mithun (Eds.), The Languages of Native
America: Historical and Comparative Assessment,
(pp. 902–1000). Austin: University of Texas Press.
 Campbell, Lyle. 1997. "American Indian Languages, The
Historical Linguistics of Native America." In Oxford Studies
in Anthropological Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press
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