The Chatino language is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, which is classified under the Zapotecan branch of the Oto-Manguean language family. The language is natively spoken by approximately 23,000 of the Chatino indigenous people, whose communities are located in the southern portion of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Catedral de Santo Domingo The Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca or simply Oaxaca   is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the southern part of Mexico, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Oto-Manguean languages are a large family of Native American languages spoken in Mexico. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Chatino children. ... Oto-Manguean languages (also Otomanguean) are a large family comprised of several families of Native American languages. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Chatino children. ... The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. ... Catedral de Santo Domingo The Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca or simply Oaxaca   is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the southern part of Mexico, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. ...

The Chatino have close cultural and linguistic ties with the Zapotec peoples, whose Zapotec language is the other member of the Zapotecan languages. The Zapotecs are an indigenous people of Mexico, concentrated in the state of Oaxaca but also with communities spread into some of the neighbouring states. ... Zapotec refers to a native people of Mexico, their language family consisting of more than fifteen languages, and their historic culture and traditions. ...

Dialects

Ethnologue counts some seven distinct dialects of Chatino, which exhibit varying degrees of mutual intelligibility: Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

1. Chatino (Chatino de la Zona Alta Occidental) [CTP]
2. Chatino de Lachao-Yolotepec [CLY]
3. Chatino de Nopala (Chatino de la Zona Alta Oriental) [CYA]
4. Chatino de Tataltepec (Chatino de la Zona Baja) [CTA]
5. Chatino de Yaitepec [CUC]
6. Chatino de Zacatepec (Chatino de San Marcos Zacatepec) [CTZ]
7. Chatino de Zenzontepec (Chatino del Norte) [CZE]

External link

• Chatino language dialects], as documented by Ethnologue