chontal de Oaxaca alto
Language variantFamily Chontal de Oaxaca
Risk grade
High
INALI 2012, on the 2000 census
Rank among the 364 variants (1 = highest risk)
93
Group
- Glottocode
- No Glottocode: its group corresponds to several Glottolog languages.
Autonym
As recorded in INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with its phonetic transcription.
| Autonym | Transcription (IPA) | Transcription status |
|---|---|---|
| tsame | [t͡same] | Extracted from the catalog |
- How to read the transcription
- […]Extracted from the catalog
- […]*Corrected by hand from the page
- ?In review: not published yet
Transcriptions set in Charis SIL, © SIL International, under the SIL Open Font License
Risk grade
INALI (2012), calculated from the 2000 census. The figures in this section are from that census, not from 2020.
- Speakers
- 2,197
- Speakers in localities where 30% or more speak it
- 1,367
- Localities
- 53
- Localities where 30% or more speak it
- 10
- Proportion of speakers, as INALI publishes it
- 47.71%
- Proportion of child speakers aged 5 to 14
- 12.07%
- Name in the risk publication
- chontal de Oaxaca alto
- How it was linked to the catalog
- Same name in both publications
Where it is spoken
Localities the 2008 catalog assigns to this variant, by state.
| State | Municipalities | Localities |
|---|---|---|
| Oaxaca | 7 | 53 |
| Total | 7 | 53 |
INALI, Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008)