Chinantec, Quiotepec

CHQ

vigorous

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:

Otomanguean
Western Otomanguean
Oto-Pame-Chinantecan
Chinantecan

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