LEALAO CHINANTEC

Chinantecan is a Mesoamerican language family of the Oto-Manguean stock that comprises fourteen different languages spoken to the north of the state of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico. Lealao Chinantec is the Chinantec language spoken in the village of San Juan Lealao and in the hamlet of Tres Arroyos, in the state of Oaxaca. The last census available to us is that of 1990, and it estimate there to be around 2,000 speakers. Some of the speakers are found in diaspora in the Zapotec villages of Choapan, Santa María Yahuive and Latani.