Pajapan Nahuatl

Pajapan Nahuatl
Spoken in Pajapan, Veracruz, Mexico
Native speakers 7,000  (1990)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nhp

Pajapan Nahuatl (also Isthmus-Pajapan or Istmo-Pajapan Nahuatl) is a variety of Nahuatl spoken in Pajapan in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

As of 1990, Pajapan Nahuatl was spoken by about 7,000 people, including 500 monolinguals. Most of its speakers also speak Spanish, and a few speak Popoluca.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Gordon (2005).

References

García de León, Antonio (1976) (in Spanish). Pajapan, un dialecto mexicano del Golfo. México, D.F.: INAH. 
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Nahuatl, Isthmus-Pajapan". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed. ed.). Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nhp. 

Ando Koji Gramática náhuatl de Pajapan,Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, 2007

See also