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Chinantec, Lealao

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: cle

Population	2,000 (1990 census). 500 monolinguals.
Region	Northeast Oaxaca, San Juan Lealao, Latani, Tres Arroyos, and La Hondura.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 102
Alternate names	Chinanteco de San Juan Lealao
Dialects	Considered most divergent Chinantec language.
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Chinantecan
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Consider it inferior to Spanish, but continue to use it. Some also use a Zapotec variety.
Language development	150 readers, 25 can write. Dictionary. NT: 1980.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VOS; short words, affixes; tonal. Swidden agriculturalists. Christian, syncretism with traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Rensch, Calvin R. 1990. "Phonological realignment in Lealao Chinantec."  

Rupp, James E. 1982. "Metáforas y proverbios chinantecos."

Rupp, James E. 1989. Lealao Chinantec syntax: Studies in Chinantec languages 2.  

Rupp, James E. 1990. "The Lealao Chinantec syllable."  

Rupp, James E. 2009. "Animacy in two Chinantec variants."  

Rupp, James E. and Nadine Rupp, compilers. 1996. Diccionario chinanteco de San Juan Lealao Oaxaca.