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Palantla Chinantec

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

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.

The language is unusual in having, for some speakers, a three-way contrast between non-nasalized, lightly nasalized, and heavily nasalized vowels.


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