Ixtenco Otomi, also known as Tlaxcala Otomi, is a
native American language spoken in the town of San Juan Bautista Ixtenco in the state of
Tlaxcala, Mexico. It has been classified as Eastern Otomi by Lastra (2006). Lastra considers Ixtenco Otomí to be a very conservative dialect.
In Tlaxcala, Otomí was also formerly spoken in nearby
Huamantla
Huamantla () is a small city in Huamantla Municipality located in the eastern half of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. The area has a long indigenous history, but the city itself was not founded until the early colonial period, in the 1530s. It is mo ...
, located to the north (Carrasco 1950). To the east, it was spoken in
Nopaluca,
San Salvador el Seco, and
Cuapiaxtla
Cuapiaxtla (municipality) is a municipality in Tlaxcala in south-eastern Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the Unite ...
. Some families from Ixtenco have migrated to
Máximo Serdán
Maximo or Máximo may refer to:
Arts
* Capcom video game series
** '' Maximo: Ghosts to Glory'' (also known as just ''Maximo'')
** ''Maximo vs. Army of Zin'', the sequel to ''Ghosts to Glory''
* Maxïmo Park, a British indie rock band
* Maximu or ...
in
Rafael Lara Grajales
Rafael Lara Grajales (municipality) is a town and municipality in Puebla in south-eastern Mexico. The municipality is named after the revolutionary general Rafael Lara Grajales.
The town has a sister city in North Korea
North Korea, offi ...
,
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
(Lastra 1998).
Notes
Sources
*Lastra, Yolanda. 1998. ''Ixtenco Otomi''. Munich: LINCOM EUROPA.
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Otomi language
Endangered Oto-Manguean languages
Languages of Mexico
Oto-Manguean languages