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Copala Triqui () is a
Trique language The Triqui (), or Trique, languages are a family of Oto-Manguean spoken by 30,000 Trique people of the Mexican states of Oaxaca and the state of Baja California in 2007 (due to recent population movements). They are also spoken by 5,000 immigrant ...
primarily spoken in the municipality of Santiago Juxtlahuaca,
Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...
, Mexico. A 2007 estimate by SIL International placed the number of Copala Triqui speakers at 25,000 in Mexico.


Geographic distribution


Greenfield, California

Immigrants from Oaxaca have formed a large Copala Triqui speaking community in the city of
Greenfield, California Greenfield (formerly Clarke Colony) is a city in Monterey County, California, United States. It lies in the Salinas Valley, southeast of Salinas, at an elevation of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,937, up from 16,330 in the 2 ...
. A bi-monthly Triqui language class was piloted at the Greenfield Public Library in 2010.


References


External links

Gramática Popular del Triqui de Copala
Trique language Indigenous languages of Mexico Endangered Oto-Manguean languages {{IndigenousAmerican-lang-stub