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Totonac, Xicotepec de Juárez

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: too

Population	3,000 (2000 SIL). 500 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 13,733 (2000 WCD).
Region	Northeast Puebla, Xicotepec de Juárez, and Veracruz. 30 towns.
Language map	Western Central Mexico, reference number 64
Alternate names	Northern Totonac, Totonaco de Villa Juárez
Dialects	Zihuateutla Totonac. 87% intelligibility with Ozumatlán (most similar).
Classification	Totonacan, Totonac
Language use	Older adults use Totonac more than Spanish. Others use Spanish more than Totonac. Mainly adults. Negative language attitude. Possibly 200 can also speak some Tepehua, Nahuatl, Otomi.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 20%. Literacy rate in L2: 60%. NT: 1978.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Young people must leave area for jobs. SVO, long words, affixes, clitics, nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists: coffee.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bishop, Ruth G. 1979. "Tense-aspect in Totonac narrative discourse."  

Bishop, Ruth G. 1984. "Consonant play in lexical sets in Northern Totonac."

Bishop, Ruth G. and Aileen A. Reid. 1979. "The boa (Ju̱qui̱ʼ lu̱huaʼ): Northern Totonac."  

Reid, Aileen A. 1979. "Dynamics of reported speech in Totonac."  

Reid, Aileen A. 1991. Gramática totonaca de Xicotepec de Juárez, Puebla.

Reid, Aileen A. and Ruth G. Bishop, compilers. 1974. Diccionario totonaco de Xicotepec de Juárez, Puebla: Totonaco-castellano, castellano-totonaco.

Reid, Aileen A., Ruth G. Bishop, Ella M. Button, and Robert E. Longacre. 1968. Totonac: From clause to discourse.