Oto-Manguean languages
Otomangue is a language family in America. It occurs mainly in Mexico. It belongs to the indigenous American languages .
The language code from ISO 639-2 is " oto ".
Numbers of speakers
The Mesoamerican language group has about 1.5 million speakers in central and southern Mexico.
The most widely spoken languages are Otomangue (according to 2000 Census ):
- Otomí ( Hñähñü, Hñähño ): Central Mexico ( 212,000 speakers)
- Mazahua ( Hñatho ): Central Mexico ( 350,000 speakers)
- Chinantekisch: Mexico: Oaxaca, Veracruz ( 224,000 speakers)
- Tlapanekisch: Mexico: Guerrero ( 75,000 speakers)
- Mazatekisch: Mexico: Oaxaca, Veracruz ( 206,000 speakers)
- Zapotec: Mexico: Central and eastern Oaxaca ( 785,000 speakers)
- Mixtec: Mexico: Central and Southwest Oaxaca, Puebla West, East Guerrero ( 511,000 speakers)
- Amuzgo: Mexico: Guerrero, Oaxaca ( 50,000 people )
Internal classification
A. Western Otomangue languages
B. Eastern Otomangue languages