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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Huastec, San Luís Potosí

Huastec, San Luís Potosí

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3hva
This ISO 639-3 code has been retired after the publication of Ethnologue, 16th edition. For more information, see the code change history documentation.

Population  70,000 (1990 census).
Region  San Luís Potosí. 12 villages.
Language map  Mexico, reference number 32
Alternate names   Potosino Huastec
Dialects  Intelligibility tests indicate one Huasteco language, but sociological factors require literature in Veracruz variety.
Classification  Mayan, Huastecan
Language development  Newspapers. NT: 1971.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO; short words, affixes; nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists.