Tequistlatecan languages

The Tequistlatecan languages, also called Chontal of Oaxaca, are three close but distinct languages spoken or once spoken by the Chontal people of Oaxaca State, Mexico.

Tequistlatecan
Chontal de Oaxaca
Geographic
distribution		Oaxaca
Linguistic classificationHokan ?
  • Tequistlatecan
Subdivisions
  • Highland Chontal
  • Coastal Chontal
Glottologtequ1244[1]
The Tequistlatecan languages are in Mexico at the left of the map.

It was spoken by 4,400 people in 2010.[2]

Languages

Name

Although most authors use the form tequistlatec(an) today, this is based on an improper derivation in Nahuatl (the correct derivation from Tequisistlán would be Tequisistec(an), and both terms were used by Sapir interchangeably).

Classification

The Tequistlatecan languages are part the proposed Hokan family, but are often considered to be distinct family. Campbell and Oltrogge (1980) proposed that the Tequistlatecan languages may be related to Jicaquean (see Tolatecan), but this hypothesis has not been generally accepted.

See also

Notes
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tequistlatecan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales

References
  • Campbell, Lyle and Oltrogge, David. 1980. Proto-Tol (Jicaque). International Journal of American Linguistics, 46:205-223
  • Campbell, Lyle. 1979. "Middle American languages." In L. Campbell & M. Mithun (Eds.), The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment, (pp. 902–1000). Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Campbell, Lyle. 1997. "American Indian Languages, The Historical Linguistics of Native America." In Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press


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