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Name: Chatino
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Chatino (Sierra Occidental); Chatino, Western Highland; Chatino de la Zona Alta Occidental; Cha't-An; Sierra Occidental Chatino
Spoken in: Mexico
Number of speakers: 12,000 (2000 SIL). 6,000 monolinguals (1990 census) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 2640 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 12000 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: ctp
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Otomanguean (Subtiaba-Tlapanec)
Parent Subgroup: Sapotekan; Zapotecan (zapn)
Child Dialects: Yaitepec Chatino; Chatino (Yaitepec) (ctp-yai) Tatalpepec Chatino; Chatino (Tataltepec); Chatino; Chatino, Tataltepec; Lowland Chatino (cta)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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