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Totonac, Highland

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: tos

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."