Huastec

HUS

developing

Alternate Names: Huasteco de Tantoyuca, Huasteco de Veracruz

Dialects: San Luis Potosi Huastec (Potosino Huastec), Southeastern Huastec (Huasteco de San Francisco Chontla). Sociological factors require literature in Veracruz variety of Huastec.

Genealogy:

Mayan
Huastecan
Huastec

Demographics: 131,000 (2000 INALI).

Language Use: All ages. Also use Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl [nhe], Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 52%. Newspapers. Dictionary. NT: 1970–2005.

Typology: SVO; short words, affixes, clitics; nontonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico