Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec | |
States: | Mexico |
Region: | Oaxaca |
Ethnicity: | Chinantecs |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Oto-Mangue |
Fam2: | Western Oto-Mangue |
Fam3: | Oto-Pame–Chinantecan |
Fam4: | Chinantec |
Lc1: | cnl |
Ld1: | Lalana Chinantec |
Lc2: | cte |
Ld2: | Tepinapa Chinantec |
Glotto: | lala1270 |
Glottoname: | Lalana |
Glottorefname: | Lalana Chinantec |
Glotto2: | tepi1241 |
Glottoname2: | Tepinapa |
Glottorefname2: | 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.