Northern Totonac

Facts

  • Language: Northern Totonac
  • Alternate names: Totonac, Xicotepec de Juárez, Northern Totonac, Totonaco de Villa Juárez, Totonako, Totonac (Xicotepec de Juárez), Totonaca (Xicotepec de Juarez), Totonako, Totonaco
  • Language code: too
  • Language family: Totonacan, Totonac (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 3,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

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    Ethnologue distinguishes 9 Totonac languages: Totonac, Coyutla [toc] Totonac, Filomena Mata-Coahuitlán [tlp] Totonac, Highland [tos] Totonac, Papantla [top] Totonac, Tecpatlán [tcw] Totonac, Upper Necaxa [tku] Totonac, Ozumatlán [tqt] Totonac, Xicotepec de Juárez [too] Totonac, Yecuatla [tlc] David Beck categorizes the varieties of Northern Totonac as follows:Northern Totonac:Upper NecaxaTecpatlán TotonacZihuateutla TotonacCerro Xinolatépetl Totonac (aka Ozumatlán) Apapantilla Totonac (aka Xicotepec). The categorization adopted here is that of Carolyn MacKay and Frank Trechsel. However, all acknowledge that there is no real consensus on the linguistic categorization of this area.