Lealao Chinantec

Lealao Chinantec
Latani Chinantec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Ethnicity	Chinantecs
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1990 census)^[1]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Western Oto-Mangue Oto-Pame–Chinantecan Chinantec Lealao Chinantec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cle`
Glottolog	`leal1235`^[2]

Lealao (Chinanteco de San Juan Lealao), also known as Latani, is the most divergent of the Chinantecan languages of Mexico. It is spoken in northeast Oaxaca, in the towns of San Juan Lealao, Latani, Tres Arroyos, and La Hondura.

References

↑ Lealao Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lealao Chinantec". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Chinantecan language(s)

Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Highland Lalana-Tepinapa Lealao Ojitlán Ozumacín Palantla Sochiapam Tepetotutla Usila

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