Chatino language
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| Chatino Cha'tña |
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| Spoken in: | Mexico | |
| Region: | Oaxaca | |
| Total speakers: | <23,000 | |
| Language family: | American Oto-Manguean (MP) Zapotecan Chatino |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | ctp | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
For the indigenous people, see Chatino.
The Chatino language is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, which is classified under the Zapotecan branch of the Oto-Manguean language family. The language is natively spoken by approximately 23,000 of the Chatino indigenous people, whose communities are located in the southern portion of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
The Chatino have close cultural and linguistic ties with the Zapotec peoples, whose Zapotec language is the other member of the Zapotecan languages.
[edit] Dialects
Ethnologue counts some six distinct dialects of Chatino, which exhibit varying degrees of mutual intelligibility:
- Chatino de la Zona Alta Occidental [ctp]
- Chatino de Lachao-Yolotepec [cly]
- Chatino de Nopala (Chatino de la Zona Alta Oriental) [cya]
- Chatino de Tataltepec (Chatino de la Zona Baja) [cta]
- Chatino de Zacatepec (Chatino de San Marcos Zacatepec) [ctz]
- Chatino de Zenzontepec (Chatino del Norte) [czn]
[edit] Media
Chatino-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEJAM, based in Santiago Jamiltepec, Oaxaca.
[edit] External links
- Chatino language dialects, as documented by Ethnologue
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