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Chinantec, Lalana

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: cnl

Population	10,500 (1998). 2,500 monolinguals.
Region	Oaxaca-Veracruz border, 25 towns in Lalana Minicipio, Jocotepec Minicipio, and Petlapa Municipio districts.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 180
Alternate names	Chinanteco de San Juan Lalana
Dialects	87% intelligibility with Tepinapa [cte] (most similar, but less similar in outlying areas), 43% with Ozumacín [chz], 24% with Lealao [cle].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Chinantecan
Language development	NT: 1974–1994.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VOS; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

MUGELE, Robert L., author. 1974. Teaching tone: An indigenous method.

MUGELE, Robert L., author. 1977. "Lalana Chinantec y-. Why?."

MUGELE, Robert L., author. 1978. "Chinantec teacher training workshop."

MUGELE, Robert L., author. 1982. Tone and ballistic syllable in Lalana Chinantec.

MUGELE, Robert L., author. 1984. "The phonetics of ballistic and controlled syllables."

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1963. "Some aspects of Chinantec grammar: a tagmemic view."

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1966. Comparative Otomanguean phonology.

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1968. Proto Chinantec phonology.

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1976. Comparative Otomanguean phonology.

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1977. "Classification of the Otomanguean languages and the position of Tlapanec."  

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1978. "Ballistic and controlled syllables in Otomanguean languages."

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1978. "Typological and genetic consideration in the classification of the Otomanguean languages."

RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1989. An etymological dictionary of the Chinantec languages: Studies in Chinantec languages 1.  

RENSCH, Calvin R.; RENSCH, Carolyn M., authors. 1966. "The Lalana Chinantec syllable."

Vernacular Publications

Júu² quieeʼ³² dsa³ ʼi³ ca²³tɨɨʼn²³ toʼ². 1976.

Primera cartilla chinanteca del Municipio de Lalana, Choapam, Oaxaca. 1958.

Primera cartilla chinanteca en chinanteco de Lalana. 1976.

Segunda cartilla chinanteca en chinanteco de Lalana. 1977.