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Tequistlatec, also called Chontal, are three close but distinct languages spoken or once spoken by the Chontal people of
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State, Mexico. Chontal was spoken by 6,000 or so people in 2020.


Languages

* Huamelultec (Lowland Oaxaca Chontal), *
Tequistlatec Tequistlatec was the Chontal language of Tequisistlán town, Oaxaca. Highland Oaxaca Chontal Highland Oaxaca Chontal, or Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca, is one of the Chontal languages of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is sometimes called ''Tequistla ...
(extinct), * Highland Oaxaca Chontal.


Name

Although most authors use the form ''tequistlatec(an)'' today, this is based on an improper derivation in Nahuatl (the correct derivation from '' Tequisistlán'' would be ''Tequisistec(an)'', and both terms were used by Sapir interchangeably).


Classification

The Tequistlatecan languages are part of the proposed Hokan family, but are often considered to be a distinct family. Campbell and Oltrogge (1980) proposed that the Tequistlatecan languages may be related to Jicaquean (see Tolatecan), but this hypothesis has not been generally accepted.


See also

* Huamelultec vocabulary list on the
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Notes


References

*Campbell, Lyle and Oltrogge, David. 1980. Proto-Tol (Jicaque). International Journal of American Linguistics, 46:205-223 * Campbell, Lyle. 1979. "Middle American languages." In L. Campbell & M. Mithun (Eds.), ''The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment'', (pp. 902–1000). Austin: University of Texas Press. *Campbell, Lyle. 1997. "American Indian Languages, The Historical Linguistics of Native America." In ''Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics''. Oxford: Oxford University Press Language families Hokan languages Indigenous languages of Mexico Indigenous languages of Central America Mesoamerican languages Oaxaca {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub