Chinantec, Usila | Ethnologue

A language of Mexico

ISO 639: cuc
Alternate Names: Chinanteco del Oeste Central Alto
Autonym: Jaú jm_, Jmiih kia’ dzä jii’
Population: 7,410 (2000 INALI). Total Chinantec speakers: 144,000 (2020 INEGI). 2,200 monolinguals.
Location:: Oaxaca state: San Felipe Usila plus 12 towns; Pueblo Doce, Veracruz.
Language Status: 6a (Vigorous).
Classification: Otomanguean, Western Otomanguean, Oto-Pame-Chinantecan, Chinantecan
Dialects: None known. 48% intelligibility of Tlacoatzintepec [ctl] (most similar), 33% of Palantla [cpa], 32% of Sochiapan [cso], 31% of Ojitlán [chj].
Typology: VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal.
Language Use: Used by all. Also use Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 20%. Dictionary. Texts. NT: 1983.
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Chinantec, Usila
Writing: Latin script [Latn].

Location: Oaxaca state: San Felipe Usila plus 12 towns; Pueblo Doce, Veracruz.