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Huastec, Veracruz

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: hus
This ISO 639-3 code has undergone change through the merging of one or more retired code elements. For more information, see the code change history documentation.

Population	50,000 (1990 census).
Region	Northern Veracruz. 60 villages.
Language map	Mexico, reference number 34
Alternate names	Huasteco de Tantoyuca
Dialects	84% intelligibility with San Luís Potosí Huastec [hva].
Classification	Mayan, Huastecan
Language use	Also use Spanish or Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl [nhe].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 52%. NT: 2005.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SVO, short words, affixes, clitics, nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Constable, Peter G. 1989. "Reflexives in Veracruz Huastec."

Constable, Peter G. 1989. Basic clause structure in Veracruz Huastec.

Hagberg, Lawrence Raymond. 2006. An autosegmental theory of stress.  

Larsen, Kathryn. 1949. "Huasteco baby talk."

Larsen, Raymond S. 1953. "Proclíticos pronominales del dialecto huasteco que se habla en el Estado de San Luis Potosí."

Larsen, Raymond S. 1955. Vocabulario huasteco del Estado de San Luis Potosí.

Larsen, Raymond S. and Eunice V. Pike. 1949. "Huasteco intonation and phonemes."

Pablo E., Abdias, Daniel L. Everett, and James Walker. 1984. "A beginning sketch of the Huastec noun phrase."