Otomi, Estado de México

OTS

developing

Alternate Names: Hñatho, Otomí de San Felipe Santiago, Otomí del Estado de México, State of Mexico Otomi

Dialects: San Felipe Santiago Otomí. 73% intelligibility of Mezquital Otomi , (most similar).

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Western Otomanguean
Oto-Pame-Chinantecan
Oto-Pamean
Otomi

Demographics: 20,000 (2010 SIL). 440 monolinguals.

Language Use: The vast majority of monolinguals are over 50. But in the Morelos Municipality, a small percentage of children go to school not knowing Spanish [spa] (2011 SIL).

Language Development: NT: 1975.

Typology: VOS; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.