Sierra Totonac language

Sierra Totonac
Highland Totonac
Native toMexico
RegionPuebla and Veracruz
Native speakers
(120,000 cited 1982)
plus 48,000 Coyutla (2000)
Totozoquean ?
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
toc – Coyutla Totonac
tos – (other varieties)
Glottologlowl1244
ELPSierra Totonac

Sierra Totonac is a native American language complex spoken in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico. One of the Totonac languages, it is also known as Highland Totonac. The language is best known through the work of the late Herman “Pedro” Aschmann who produced a small dictionary and several academic articles on the language.

Varieties

The varieties of Sierra Totonac are rather diverse, and specialists tend to consider them distinct languages. They are:

Zapotitlán Totonac is the best known, being the variety described by Aschmann.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Coyutla Totonac at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    (other varieties) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

—*Aschmann, Herman P. 1953. Los dos niveles de composición en el verbo totonaco. In Bernal, Ignacio and Hurtado, Eusebio Dávalos, eds. Huastecos, totonacos y sus vecinos. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos. 13(2/3):119–122. México: Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología.