totonaco

Family Totonaco-tepehua

Speakers aged 3 and over

256,344

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 0
Medium 3
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=6;threatened=1;shifting=2

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

37 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

102 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

varieties with a speech corpus

Source: common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail: 1 of 9 codes covered: top spontaneous 5.0: 9.94h validated

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: 4 of 9 codes supported: tlp_Latn, toc_Latn, top_Latn, tos_Latn

Identity

Glottocode: toto1252
ISO 639-3: tcw, tku, tlc, tlp, toc, too, top, tos, tqt
Match to Glottolog: Several Glottolog languages in one group

Glottolog languages in this group

toc Coyutla Totonac coyu1235
tlp Filomeno Mata Totonac filo1235
tos Highland Totonac high1243
tqt Ozumatlán Totonac west1511
top Papantla Totonac papa1238
tcw Tecpatlán Totonac tecp1235
tku Upper Necaxa Totonac uppe1275
too Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac xico1235
tlc Yecuatla Totonac yecu1235

Variants 7

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

Variant	Autonym	Risk
totonaco central alto	tutunáku (central alto)	No immediate risk
totonaco central del norte	tachaqawaxti · tachiwiin · tutunakuj	No immediate risk
totonaco central del sur	totonaco (central del sur) · tutunakú · tutunáku (central del sur)	No immediate risk
totonaco de la costa	lichiwin tutunaku	Medium
totonaco del cerro Xinolatépetl	kintachiuinkan	Medium
totonaco del río Necaxa	totonaco (del río Necaxa)	Medium
totonaco del sureste	laakanaachiwíin	Very high