Alternate Names: Northern Totonac, Totonaco de Villa Juárez
Dialects: Zihuateutla Totonac. 87% intelligibility of Ozumatlán , (most similar).
Genealogy:
Demographics: 3,000 (2000 SIL). 500 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 13,700.
Language Use: Older adults use Totonac more than Spanish. Others use Spanish more than Totonac. Mainly adults. Negative attitudes. Possibly 200 can also speak some Tepehua, Nahuatl, Otomi.
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 20%. Literacy rate in L2: 60%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1978.
Typology: SVO; long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico
Other Comments: Young people must leave area for jobs.