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chontal de Oaxaca

Family Chontal de Oaxaca

Speakers aged 3 and over
5,613

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade
Very high

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

Variants by grade
  • Very high 2
  • High 1
  • Medium 0
  • No immediate risk 0
Status in Glottolog
Moribund

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 2 members with AES (2 in group): shifting=1;moribund=1

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

29 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Models
Hugging Face
1

models focused on the language

16 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 2 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 2 codes
Speech recognition
Omnilingual ASR

Source does not cover this language

Source
omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail
none of 2 codes is in the supported list

Identity

Glottocode
tequ1244
ISO 639-3
chd, clo
Match to Glottolog
Several Glottolog languages in one group
Glottolog languages in this group
  • chd Highland Oaxaca Chontal high1242
  • clo Lowland Oaxaca Chontal lowl1260

Variants 3

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

VariantAutonymRisk
chontal de Oaxaca altotsameHigh
chontal de Oaxaca bajotsomeVery high
chontal de Oaxaca de la costalajltyaygiVery high