Ethnologue

Nahuatl, Sierra Negra

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Náhuatl de la Sierra Negra

Population

25,000 (2006 SIL). 16,000 monolinguals.

Location

Puebla state: 13 towns in south.

Language Maps

Language Status

6a* (Vigorous).

Classification

Dialects

Coyomeapan, Zoquitlan. Reportedly most similar to Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl [npl]; next most similar to Nahuatl [nhm] (Morelos).

Typology

Long words, affixes; nontonal.

Language Development

NT: 2017.

Language Resources

Writing

Latin script [Latn].