Totonac, Xicotepec de Juárez

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Alternate Names: Northern Totonac, Totonaco de Villa Juárez

Dialects: Zihuateutla Totonac. 87% intelligibility of Ozumatlán , (most similar).

Genealogy:

Totonacan
Totonac

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.