Totonac languages

Totonac
Native to	Mexico
Region	Puebla, Veracruz, Zacatlán
Ethnicity	Totonac people
Native speakers	240,000 (2010 census)^[1]
Language family	Totozoquean ? Totonacan Totonac
Official status
Regulated by	INALI
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `toc` – Coyutla Totonac `tlp` – Filomena Mata-Coahuitlán Totonac `tos` – Highland Totonac `top` – Papantla Totonac `tcw` – Tecpatlán Totonac `tku` – Upper Necaxa Totonac `tqt` – Ozumatlán Totonac `too` – Xicotepec de Juárez Totonac `tlc` – Yecuatla Totonac
Glottolog	`toto1252`^[2]

Totonac is a language cluster of Mexico, spoken across a number of central Mexican states by the Totonac people. It is a Mesoamerican language and shows many of the traits which define the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. Along with some 62 other indigenous languages, it is recognized (per General Law of Linguistic Rights of the Indigenous Peoples) as an official language of Mexico, though as a single language.^[3]

Languages

↑ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Totonac". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ "Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas" (PDF). (56.2 KiB) ("General Law of the Linguistic Rights of Indigenous peoples"), decree published 13 March 2003

Official/
Indigenous

100,000+ speakers	Spanish Nahuatl Yucatec Maya Mixtec Zapotec Tzeltal Maya Tzotzil Maya Otomí Totonac Mazatec Ch'ol Huastec Chinantec Mixe Mazahua Purépecha
10,000-100,000 speakers	Tlapanec Tarahumara Amuzgo Chatino Tojolab'al Sierra Popoluca Chontal de Tabasco Huichol Mayo Tepehuán Trique Cora Popolocan Huave Cuicatec Yaqui Q'anjob'al Tepehua
Under 10,000 speakers	Pame Mam Chontal of Oaxaca Chuj Tacuate Chichimeca Jonaz Huarijío Chocho Pima Bajo Q'eqchí Lacandón Jakaltek Matlatzinca Seri Ixcatec K'iche' Kaqchikel Paipai Cucapá Mototzintleco Kumiai Pápago Kikapú Ixil Cochimí Kiliwa Aguacatec

Non-official

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Note: The list of official languages is ordered by decreasing size of population.

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