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Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: clo

Population	950 (1990 census).
Region	South Oaxaca, Tehuantepec District, San Pedro Huamelula and Santiago Astata.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 117
Alternate names	Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca, Huamelula Chontal, Huamelulteco
Classification	Tequistlatecan
Language development	Bible portions: 1955.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; medium long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

MERRIFIELD, William R.; WATERHOUSE, Viola G., authors. 1968. "Coastal Chontal of Oaxaca kinship."

MORRISON, May; WATERHOUSE, Viola G., authors. 1950. "Chontal phonemes."

PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1962. "Dimensions of grammatical constructions."

TURNER, Paul R., author. 1967. "Seri and Chontal (Tequistlateco)."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1949. "Learning a second language first."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1949. "Oaxaca Chontal: Sentence types and text analysis."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1957. "Two Oaxaca Chontal words."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1958. The grammatical structure of Oaxaca Chontal.

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1961. "The psychological reality of linguistic structure."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1962. The grammatical structure of Oaxaca Chontal.

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1963. "Independent and dependent sentences."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1967. "Huamelultec Chontal."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1969. "Oaxaca Chontal in reference to Proto-Chontal."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1985. "Counting in Oaxaca Chontal."

WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1985. "True Tlaquistlateco."

WATERHOUSE, Viola, researcher. 2012. Oaxaca Chontal: Three Sets of Reflexes.  

WATERHOUSE, Viola, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1994. Lowland Chontal Texts.

WATERHOUSE, Viola, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1994. Lowland Chontal Vocabulario.

WATERHOUSE, Viola, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1994. Lowland Chontal Vocabulario.

WATERHOUSE, Viola, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1994. The Grammatical Structure of Oaxaca Chontal.