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Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec
Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Ethnicity	Chinantecs
Native speakers	(23,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Oto-Mangue Western Oto-Mangue Oto-Pame–Chinantecan Chinantec Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; cnl – Lalana Chinantec; cte – Tepinapa Chinantec
Glottolog	lala1270 Lalana; tepi1241 Tepinapa

Lalana-Tepinapa Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in 30 towns in a remote region along the Oaxaca–Veracruz border. Outlying varieties of Lalana and Tepinapa Chinantec have only marginal intelligibility with each other. A third of speakers are monolingual.

References

↑ Lalana Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tepinapa Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[e18-1] Lalana Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tepinapa Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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