Alternate Names: Huave del oeste
Dialects: None known. Very limited intelligibility of other Huave varieties; 88% of San Dionisio del Mar ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 11,000 (2005 census). 1,550 monolinguals.
Language Use: All ages. 9,300 also use Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 60%. Literacy rate in L2: 40%. Poetry. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1972–1996.
Typology: SVO; short words, affixes; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico
Other Comments: Legend says they came from Central America.