North America · ISO 639-3 clo · Glottocode lowl1260
Lowland Oaxaca Chontal
In Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, an assignment to the Tequistlatecan family, a reference point in North America, and the CLDR inference Latin meet.
- Language family
- Tequistlatecan
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- moribund
- Macroarea
- North America
- Source country codes
- MX
- Reference point
- 15.950, -95.688
Open research question
How can speaker situation, generational change, and local revitalisation aims for Lowland Oaxaca Chontal be documented without reading the reference point as a language area?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.