Chatino language
| Cha'cña | ||
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| speaker | about 48,000 people | |
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| Official language in | National language in Mexico
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Chatino (Cha'cña) is an indigenous language in Mexico or several closely related languages spoken by the Chatino ethnic group . It belongs to the Otomangue language family and is most closely related to Zapotec .
The name Cha'cña means "difficult word".
Chatino is spoken by around 48,000 people in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , according to the 2010 census .
SIL International divides Chatino into six individual languages.
literature
- Leslie Pride, Kitty Pride: Chatino de la zona alta, Oaxaca , in: Archivo de lenguas indígenas de México , ed. COLMEX , Ciudad de México 1997. ISBN 968-12-0701-7 .