Sierra Totonac language explained

Sierra Totonac
Nativename:Highland Totonac
Region:Puebla and Veracruz
Speakers:120,000
Date:1982
Ref:e18
Speakers2:plus 48,000 Coyutla (2000)
Script:Latin
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Totozoquean ?
Fam2:Totonacan
Fam3:Totonac
Fam4:Central
Fam5:Lowland–Sierra
Lc1:toc
Ld1:Coyutla Totonac
Lc2:tos
Ld2:(other varieties)
Glotto:lowl1244
Glottorefname:Sierra Totonacan

Sierra Totonac is a native American language complex spoken in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico. One of the Totonacan languages, it is also known as Highland Totonac. The language is best known through the work of the late Herman “Pedro” Aschmann who produced a small dictionary and several academic articles on the language.

Varieties

The varieties of Sierra Totonac are rather diverse, and specialists tend to consider them distinct languages. They are:

Zapotitlán Totonac is the best known, being the variety described by Aschmann.

See also

References

—*Aschmann, Herman P. 1953. Los dos niveles de composición en el verbo totonaco. In Bernal, Ignacio and Hurtado, Eusebio Dávalos, eds. Huastecos, totonacos y sus vecinos. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos. 13(2/3):119–122. México: Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología.

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