Alternate Names: Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca, Chontal de Oaxaca de la costa, Huamelula Chontal, Huamelulteco
Genealogy:
Demographics: 1,060 (2000 INALI). 0 monolinguals.
Language Use: Endangered. Simple greetings, ritual speech. Not learned by children as L1. Users are over 70 years old. Language area dominated by Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: Most children and young adults in Spanish [spa]. Grammar. Bible portions: 1955.
Typology: VSO; medium long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico