otomí

Family Oto-mangue

Speakers aged 3 and over

298,861

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade

Very high

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

Variants by grade

Very high 4
High 1
Medium 1
No immediate risk 3

Status in Glottolog

Shifting

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 9 members with AES (9 in group): not endangered=3;threatened=2;shifting=4

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

datasets focused on the language

32 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source: huggingface
Recorded detail: repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups

Models

Hugging Face

models focused on the language

111 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 9 codes is a Common Voice locale

Treebanks

Universal Dependencies

released treebanks

Source: universal-dependencies 2.18 (2026-05-15)
Recorded detail: no treebank for any of 9 codes

Speech recognition

Omnilingual ASR

varieties supported

Source: omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail: 2 of 9 codes supported: ote_Latn, otq_Latn

Identity

Glottocode: unresolved
ISO 639-3: ote, otl, otm, otn, otq, ots, ott, otx, otz
Match to Glottolog: Unresolved

Glottolog languages in this group

otm Eastern Highland Otomi east2556
ots Estado de México Otomi esta1236
otz Ixtenco Otomi ixte1237
ote Mezquital Otomi mezq1235
otq Querétaro Otomi quer1236
ott Temoaya Otomi temo1245
otn Tenango Otomi tena1241
otx Texcatepec Otomi texc1235
otl Tilapa Otomi tila1239

Variants 9

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

Variant	Autonym	Risk
otomí bajo del noroeste	hñäñho	No immediate risk
otomí de Ixtenco	yühmu	Very high
otomí de la Sierra	yühu · ñoju · ñuju	No immediate risk
otomí de Tilapa o del sur	ñü’hü	Very high
otomí del centro	hñothó · hñähñu (del centro) · ñható · ñóhnño (del centro) · ñöthó	High
otomí del noroeste	hñöñho · ñanhú · ñühú	No immediate risk
otomí del oeste	ñathó	Very high
otomí del oeste del Valle del Mezquital	ñähñá · ñöhñö	Very high
otomí del Valle del Mezquital	hñähñú · ñandú · ñanhmu · ñänhú (del Valle del Mezquital) · ñóhnño (del Valle del Mezquital)	Medium