Tilapa Otomi | |
Nativename: | Ñųhų |
Region: | Santiago Tilapa |
Speakers: | 100 |
Date: | 2006 |
Ref: | [1] |
Script: | Latin |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
Fam2: | Oto-Pamean |
Fam3: | Otomian |
Fam4: | Eastern |
Iso3: | otl |
Glotto: | tila1239 |
Glottorefname: | Tilapa Otomi |
Tilapa Otomi is a seriously endangered native American language spoken by less than a dozen people in the village of Santiago Tilapa, between Toluca and the DF in Mexico State. It has been classified as Eastern Otomi by Lastra (2006).[1] but in reality "Eastern Otomi" in Lastra's classification is a broader term for a "conservative variety". It is a language closely related to Acazulco and Atlapulco Otomi. It also shows a number of idiosyncratic innovations which make it stand as a different language, probably the closest one to Colonial Otomi. Its system of verbal conjugations is highly complex compared to the Mezquital varieties.[2]