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Totonac, Highland

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3tos

Population  120,000 (1982 SIL).
Region  Zacatlán, Puebla, Veracruz.
Language map  Western Central Mexico, reference number 60
Alternate names   Sierra Totonac, Totonaco de la Sierra
Classification  Totonacan, Totonac
Language use  Some also use a Nahuatl language.
Language development  Dictionary. NT: 1959–2000.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO, long words, affixes, clitics, nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Aschmann, Elizabeth D. 1963. "The snake that gives money: a Totonac myth."

Aschmann, Elizabeth D. 1984. "The relative clause in Highland Totonac."

Aschmann, Herman P. 1946. "Totonac categories of smell."

Aschmann, Herman P. 1946. "Totonaco phonemes."

Aschmann, Herman P. 1949. Vocabulario de la lengua totonaca.

Aschmann, Herman P. 1950. "A literal translation of 2 Corinthians 1:1-11 in Totonac."

Aschmann, Herman P. 1952-53. "Los dos niveles de composición en el verbo totonaco."

Aschmann, Herman P. and William L. Wonderly. 1952. "Affixes and implicit categories in Totonac verb inflection."

Aschmann, Herman P., compiler. 1962. Castellano-totonaco, totonaco-castellano (Vocabulario totonaco de la Sierra).

Christiansen, Landis G. 1937. "Totonaco."

Wendell, Margaret M. 1970. "A problem in Totonac orthography."