Lealao Chinantec Explained

Lealao Chinantec
Nativename:Latani Chinantec
States:Mexico
Region:Oaxaca
Ethnicity:Chinantecs
Speakers:2,000
Date:1990 census
Ref:e18
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Oto-Mangue
Fam2:Western Oto-Mangue
Fam3:Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Fam4:Chinantec
Iso3:cle
Glotto:leal1235
Glottorefname:Lealao Chinantec

Lealao (Chinanteco de San Juan Lealao), also known as Latani, is the most divergent of the Chinantecan languages of Mexico. It is spoken in northeast Oaxaca, in the towns of San Juan Lealao, Latani, Tres Arroyos, and La Hondura.