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Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: clo

Population	950 (1990 census).
Region	Southern Oaxaca, Tehuantepec District, San Pedro Huamelula and Santiago Astata.
Alternate names	Huamelula Chontal, Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca, Huamelulteco
Classification	Hokan, Tequistlatecan
Language use	Bilingual level estimates for Spanish: 0 0%, 1 0%, 2 0%, 3 40%, 4 30%, 5 30%.
Language development	Bible portions: 1955.
Comments	VSO; medium long words; affixes, clitics; nontonal. Coastal. Scrub forest. 300 meters. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Pike, Kenneth L. 1962. "Dimensions of grammatical constructions."

Turner, Paul R. 1967. "Seri and Chontal (Tequistlateco)."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1949. "Learning a second language first."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1949. "Oaxaca Chontal: Sentence types and text analysis."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1957. "Two Oaxaca Chontal words."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1958. The grammatical structure of Oaxaca Chontal.

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1961. "The psychological reality of linguistic structure."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1962. The grammatical structure of Oaxaca Chontal.

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1963. "Independent and dependent sentences."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1967. "Huamelultec Chontal."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1969. "Oaxaca Chontal in reference to Proto-Chontal."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1985. "Counting in Oaxaca Chontal."

Waterhouse, Viola G. 1985. "True Tlaquistlateco."

Waterhouse, Viola G. and May Morrison. 1950. "Chontal phonemes."

Waterhouse, Viola G. and William R. Merrifield. 1968. "Coastal Chontal of Oaxaca kinship."