Palantla Chinantec

Palantla Chinantec
Palantla Chinantec
Tlatepuzco Chinantec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Ethnicity	Chinantecs
Native speakers	25,000 (2007)
Language family	Oto-Mangue Western Oto-Mangue Oto-Pame–Chinantecan Chinantec Palantla Chinantec; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; cpa – Palantla Chinantec; cvn – Valle Nacional Chinantec
Glottolog	pala1351 Palantla; vall1253 Valle Nacional
ELP	Lower Central Chinantec

Palantla Chinantec, also known as Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, has marginal mutual intelligibility.

A grammar and a dictionary have been published.^[2]^[3]

^ Palantla Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Valle Nacional Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Merrifield, William R. 1968. Palantla Chinantec grammar. Papeles de la Chinantla 5, Serie Científica 9.México: Museo Nacional de Antropología. [1]
^ Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 2007. Diccionario Chinanteco de la diáspora del pueblo antiguo de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, Oaxaca. [2nd Edition]. Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 39. Mexico DF: Summer Linguistic Institute. [2].

[e18-1] Palantla Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Valle Nacional Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[:0-2] Merrifield, William R. 1968. Palantla Chinantec grammar. Papeles de la Chinantla 5, Serie Científica 9.México: Museo Nacional de Antropología. [1]

[MA2007-3] Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 2007. Diccionario Chinanteco de la diáspora del pueblo antiguo de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, Oaxaca. [2nd Edition]. Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 39. Mexico DF: Summer Linguistic Institute. [2].

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