Totonac languages
This article is a stub about the Totonac languages that form the main group of the Totonacan language family together with the Tepehua languages. For detailed information on grammar, speaker demography and sociolinguistics of the Totonacan languages see Totonacan languages.
Totonac | |
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Native to | Mexico |
Region | Puebla, Veracruz, Zacatlán |
Ethnicity | Totonac people |
Native speakers | 240,000 (2010 census)[1] |
Totozoquean ?
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Official status | |
Regulated by | INALI |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Variously: toc – Coyutla Totonac tlp – Filomena Mata-Coahuitlán Totonac tos – Highland Totonac top – Papantla Totonac tcw – Tecpatlán Totonac tku – Upper Necaxa Totonac tqt – Ozumatlán Totonac too – Xicotepec de Juárez Totonac tlc – Yecuatla Totonac |
Glottolog |
toto1252 [2] |
Totonac is an language cluster of Mexico, spoken across a number of central Mexican states by the Totonac people. It is a Mesoamerican language and shows many of the traits which define the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. Along with some 62 other indigenous languages, it is recognised as an official language of Mexico, though as a single language.[3]
Languages
See Totonacan languages.
See also
- Totonacapan (for a list of municipalities with Totonac speakers)
References
- ↑ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Totonac". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas" (PDF). (56.2 KiB) ("General Law of the Linguistic Rights of Indigenous peoples"), decree published 13 March 2003
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