Highland Totonac
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| Highland Totonac | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mexico (Puebla, Veracruz) | |
| Total speakers: | 120,000 (1982 SIL) | |
| Language family: | American Totonacan Totonac Highland Totonac |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | None | |
| Regulated by: | none | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | tos | |
| ISO 639-3: | tos – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Highland Totonac is a native American language spoken in central Mexico: specifically, in the states of Veracruz and Puebla, and especially the Zacatlán area of the Sierra Norte. One of the Totonacan languages, it is also known as Totonaco de la Sierra or Sierra Totonac. There is a Highland Totonac dictionary and the language has been studied by linguists since 1959. The language is characterized by long words, affixes, and clitics; it is not a tonal language. Some speakers use various Nahuatl varieties as a second language. [1]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Ethnologue, Highland Totonac, retrieved May 25, 2007
