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chinanteco

Family Oto-mangue

Speakers aged 3 and over
144,394

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade
High

INALI 2012, on 2000 census figures. The highest-risk variant is shown.

Variants by grade
  • Very high 0
  • High 1
  • Medium 0
  • No immediate risk 10
Status in Glottolog
Shifting

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 14 members with AES (14 in group): threatened=8;shifting=6

Digital resources

One indicator per source, measured in the snapshot of Oct 5, 2026. They are never blended into a single score.

This means the technical building blocks for language tools — translators, speech recognition, spell-checkers — not cultural content like books or music. What we count and where it comes from

Datasets
Hugging Face
0

datasets focused on the language

30 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Models
Hugging Face
0

models focused on the language

103 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Speech corpus
Common Voice

Source does not cover this language

Source
common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail
none of 14 codes is a Common Voice locale
Treebanks
Universal Dependencies
0

released treebanks

Source
universal-dependencies 2.18 (2026-05-15)
Recorded detail
no treebank for any of 14 codes
Speech recognition
Omnilingual ASR
11

varieties supported

Source
omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail
11 of 14 codes supported: cco_Latn, chq_Latn, chz_Latn, cle_Latn, cnl_Latn, cnt_Latn, cpa_Latn, cso_Latn, cte_Latn, ctl_Latn, cuc_Latn

Identity

Glottocode
chin1484
ISO 639-3
cco, chj, chq, chz, cle, cnl, cnt, cpa, csa, cso, cte, ctl, cuc, cvn
Match to Glottolog
Several Glottolog languages in one group
Glottolog languages in this group
  • csa Chiltepec Chinantec chil1282
  • cco Comaltepec Chinantec coma1246
  • cnl Lalana Chinantec lala1270
  • cle Lealao Chinantec leal1235
  • chj Ojitlán Chinantec ojit1237
  • chz Ozumacín Chinantec ozum1235
  • cpa Palantla Chinantec pala1351
  • chq Quiotepec Chinantec quio1240
  • cso Sochiapam Chinantec soch1239
  • cnt Tepetotutla Chinantec tepe1279
  • cte Tepinapa Chinantec tepi1241
  • ctl Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec tlac1239
  • cuc Usila Chinantec usil1237
  • cvn Valle Nacional Chinantec vall1253

Variants 11

From INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with each variant's risk grade (INALI, 2012).

VariantAutonymRisk
chinanteco centraljajme dzä mii · jmiih kia’ dzä miiNo immediate risk
chinanteco central bajoj+g dsa k+ · j+g ki tsomän · jumi dsa iin+nHigh
chinanteco de la Sierrajmiih dzä mo’No immediate risk
chinanteco del noroestejau jmaiNo immediate risk
chinanteco del nortejmiih kia’ dzä ‘vï ï · jujmi (del norte) · jujmi tsa kö ‘w++No immediate risk
chinanteco del oestejujmaNo immediate risk
chinanteco del oeste central altojaú jm · jmiih kia’ dzä jii’No immediate risk
chianateco del oeste central bajojajmi dzä kï ï’ · jejmei · jejmiNo immediate risk
chinanteco del sureste altojumi dsa mojaiNo immediate risk
chinanteco del sureste bajojujmi dsa m+ta’o · jujmi dsa maji’iNo immediate risk
chinanteco del sureste mediojujmi (del sureste medio)No immediate risk