Highland Chontal

Facts

Language: Highland Chontal
Alternate names: Chontal, Chontal of Oaxaca, Chontal (Highland), Chontal de Oaxaca (Sierra), Tequistlateco, Highland Oaxaca Chontal, Mountain Tequistlatec
Language code: chd
Language family: Tequistlatecan (SIL classification)
Number of speakers: 3,413
Vulnerability: Threatened
Script: Latin script.

More information:

‘Tequistlateco’ has been used in publications, but true Tequistlateco was spoken in Tequisistlán town, and is now extinct.

c.3,000 speakers (LC)