Alternate Names: Highland Chinantec
Dialects: Yolox Chinanteco. 87% intelligibility of Comaltepec , (most similar, less similar in outlying areas), 7% of Tepetotutla ,. Highland Chinantec languages share a complexity of vowel length and tone extensions that Tepetotutla , and Palantla , do not have.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 8,000 (1998). 1,750 monolinguals.
Language Development: Grammar. NT: 1983.
Typology: VSO; short words, affixes; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico