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Chatino is a group of indigenous Mesoamerican languages. These languages are a branch of the Zapotecan family within the Oto-Manguean language family. They are natively spoken by 45,000 Chatino people, whose communities are located in the southern portion of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The Chatinos have close cultural and linguistic ties with the Zapotec people, whose languages form the other branch of the Zapotecan language family. Chatinos call their language ''cha'cña'', which means "difficult word." It is recognized as a national language in Mexico. ==Varieties== Egland & Bartholomew (1983) conducted mutual intelligibility tests in which they concluded that four varieties of Chatino could be considered separate languages in regards to mutual intelligibility, with 80% intelligibility being needed for varieties to be considered part of the same language. (The same count resulted from a looser 70% criterion.) These were Tataltepec, Zacatepec, Panixtlahuaca, and the Highlands dialects, with Zenzontepec not tested but based on other studies believed to be completely unintelligible with the rest of Chatino. The Highlands dialects fall into three groups, largely foreshadowing the divisions in ''Ethnologue''. ''Ethnologue'' 16 differentiates six Chatino languages. The Highlands dialects are divided into three groups, Eastern, Western, and Nopala, despite good intelligibility between neighboring varieties; Yaitepec is moved from Eastern to Western. ''Pace'' Egland, Panixtlahuaca is found to be a Highland dialect. Campbell (2013), in a study based on shared innovations rather than mutual intelligibility, first divides Chatino into two groups--Zenzontepec and Coastal Chatino. He then divides Coastal Chatino into Tataltepec and Eastern Chatino. His Eastern Chatino contains all other varieties and he finds no evidence for subgrouping or further division based on shared innovations. This division mirrors the divisions reported by Boas (1913), based on speaker comments, that Chatino comprised three "dialects" with limited mutual intelligibility. *Zenzontepec *Coastal Chatino * *Tataltepec * *Eastern Chatino * * *Zacatepec * * *Highlands: Eastern (Lachao-Yolotepec), Western (Yaitepec, Panixtlahuaca, Quiahije), Nopala 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chatino language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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