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chontal de Tabasco

Family Maya

Speakers aged 3 and over
60,563

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade
Very high

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

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

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 1 members with AES (1 in group): threatened=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

23 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

22 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 does not cover this language

Source
common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail
none of 1 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 1 codes
Speech recognition
Omnilingual ASR
1

varieties supported

Source
omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail
1 of 1 codes supported: chf_Latn

Identity

Glottocode
taba1266
ISO 639-3
chf
Match to Glottolog
Exact: one Glottolog language
Glottolog languages in this group
  • chf Tabasco Chontal taba1266

Variants 4

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

VariantAutonymRisk
chontal de Tabasco centralyoko t’an (central)Medium
chontal de Tabasco del esteyoko t’an (del este)Medium
chontal de Tabasco del norteyoko t’an (del norte)High
chontal de Tabasco del suresteyoko t’an (del sureste)Very high