Tataltepec Chatino

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Tataltepec Chatino is an indigenous Chatino language of Oaxaca, Mexico, known for its complex tonal system and use in the community of Tataltepec de Valdés.

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Tataltepec Chatino canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chatino language
Oto-Manguean language
indigenous language
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Chatino NERFINISHED
contactLanguage Spanish
countryCode MX
endangeredStatus endangered language
hasAlternativeName Chatino de Tataltepec NERFINISHED
Tataltepec de Valdés Chatino NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of local identity in Tataltepec de Valdés
hasDomain home and community domains
hasFeature complex tonal system
complex verb morphology
contrastive vowel length
phonemic tone
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment verb-initial tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature contour tones
multiple level tones
hasSociolinguisticSituation language shift pressure from Spanish
hasType tonal language
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isIndigenousTo Oaxaca NERFINISHED
isMinorityLanguageIn Mexico NERFINISHED
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Chatino varieties (to a significant degree)
isRecognizedAs indigenous language of Mexico
isSpokenByMinority yes
isSubjectOf linguistic fieldwork
tone system research
languageFamilyBranch Chatino branch of Zapotecan
languageOf Tataltepec de Valdés community
partOfLanguageFamily Oto-Manguean language family NERFINISHED
region Sierra Madre del Sur NERFINISHED
spokenBy Chatino people NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry Mexico NERFINISHED
spokenInMunicipality Tataltepec de Valdés NERFINISHED
spokenInState Oaxaca NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Chatino NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication in Tataltepec de Valdés
local cultural practices
oral tradition

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Chatino people hasLanguage Tataltepec Chatino