Chinantec
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| Chinantec Tsa Jujmi |
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| Spoken in: | Mexico | |
| Region: | Oaxaca | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 224,000 | |
| Language family: | Oto-Mangue Chinantecan Chinantec |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | to be added | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Chinantecs are an indigenous people that lives in Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexicoespecially in the districts of Ixtlán de Juarez, Tuxtepec and Choapan. The Chinantecs are still very traditional: they often wear traditional clothing and practice traditional crafts such as weaving, They generally live from subsistence farming and small scale trade.
The Chinantec language belongs to the Chinantecan branch of the Oto-Manguean family. The ethnologue counts 13 different mutually unintelligible varieties of chinantec.
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