alternate_names: "Totonac, Xicotepec de Juárez; Northern Totonac; Totonaco de Villa Juárez; Totonako; Totonac (Xicotepec de Juárez); Totonaca (Xicotepec de Juarez); Totonako; Totonaco;",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Totonacan; Totonac",
dialect_varieties: "Apapantilla, Patla, Chicontla, Cacahuatlan, San Pedro Tlaolantongo, Filomeno Mata",
public_comment: "Ethnologue distinguishes 9 Totonac languages:
Totonac, Coyutla [toc]
Totonac, Filomena Mata-Coahuitlán [tlp]
Totonac, Highland [tos]
Totonac, Papantla [top]
Totonac, Tecpatlán [tcw]
Totonac, Upper Necaxa [tku]
Totonac, Ozumatlán [tqt]
Totonac, Xicotepec de Juárez [too]
Totonac, Yecuatla [tlc]
David Beck categorizes the varieties of Northern Totonac as follows:
Northern Totonac:
Upper Necaxa
Tecpatlán Totonac
Zihuateutla Totonac
Cerro Xinolatépetl Totonac (aka Ozumatlán)
Apapantilla Totonac (aka Xicotepec).
The categorization adopted here is that of Carolyn MacKay and Frank Trechsel. However, all acknowledge that there is no real consensus on the linguistic categorization of this area.",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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id:6626,
code_id:3521,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "3,000",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "13,733",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (2000). There are 500 monolinguals. Data for the ethnic population comes from WCD (2000).",