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Otomi, Eastern Highland

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: otm

Population	49,300 (2007). 4,700 monolinguals.
Region	Hidalgo, Huehuetla and San Bartolo; Veracruz, Tlachichilco and Ixhuatlán.
Language map	Western Central Mexico, reference number 52
Alternate names	Eastern Otomi, Otomí de Huehuetla, Otomí de la Sierra, Otomí del Oriente, Sierra Oriental Otomi, Yuhu
Dialects	81% intelligibility with Tenango [otn] (most similar), 50% of Mezquital [ote].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Otopamean, Otomian, Otomi
Language use	Positive attitude.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 40%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1974–2000.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VOS; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bartholomew, Doris. 1973. "Otomi dependent clauses."

Echegoyen, Artemisa and Katherine Voigtlander. 1977. "Peregrinación a la laguna y En busca de trabajo en la carretera."

Echegoyen, Artemisa. 1979. Luces contemporáneas del otomí: Gramática del otomí de la sierra.

Jenkins, Joyce, compiler. n.d.. Vocabulario médico.

Jenkins, Joyce. 1946. "San Gregorio—an Otomi village of the highlands of Hidalgo, Méx."

Jenkins, Joyce. 1958. "Morphological phoneme sequences in Eastern Otomi."

Voigtlander, Katherine and Doris A. Bartholomew. 1972. "Semology and transitivity in Eastern Otomi verbs."

Vernacular Publications

Cartilla otomí de la sierra 1. 1947.

Cartilla otomí de la sierra 2. 1948.