Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec

Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in 30 towns in a remote region along the Oaxaca–Veracruz border. Outlying varieties of Lalana and Tepinapa Chinantec have only marginal intelligibility with each other. A third of speakers are monolingual.

Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
EthnicityChinantecs
Native speakers
23,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
cnl – Lalana Chinantec
cte – Tepinapa Chinantec
Glottologlala1270  Lalana
tepi1241  Tepinapa

References
  1. Lalana Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tepinapa Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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