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.[3]

Tilapa Otomi
Ñųhų
Native toMexico
RegionSantiago Tilapa
Native speakers
100 (2006)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3otl
Glottologtila1239
ELPTilapa Otomí[2]

Notes

  1. Lastra, Yolanda (2006). Los Otomies – Su lengua y su historia (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Instituto de investigaciones Antropológicas. ISBN 9789703233885.
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Tilapa Otomí.
  3. Palancar, Enrique (2012). "The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi: An approach from canonical typology" (PDF). Linguistics. 50 (4). doi:10.1515/ling-2012-0025. S2CID 55777801.
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