Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec

Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in 30 towns in a remote region along the Oaxaca–Veracruz border. Outlying varieties of Lalana and Tepinapa Chinantec have only marginal intelligibility with each other. A third of speakers are monolingual.

Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
EthnicityChinantecs
Native speakers
23,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
cnl – Lalana Chinantec
cte – Tepinapa Chinantec
Glottologlala1270  Lalana
tepi1241  Tepinapa
ELPLower Southeastern Chinantec[2]
Middle Southeastern Chinantec[3]

References
  1. Lalana Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tepinapa Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Lower Southeastern Chinantec.
  3. Endangered Languages Project data for Middle Southeastern Chinantec.
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