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Tolatecan is a proposal by Campbell and Oltrogge (1980) linking two language families of Mesoamerica,
Tequistlatecan Tequistlatec, also called Chontal, are three close but distinct languages spoken or once spoken by the Chontal people of Oaxaca State, Mexico. Chontal was spoken by 6,000 or so people in 2020. Languages * Huamelultec (Lowland Oaxaca Chontal), ...
(Chontal of Oaxaca) and Tol/Jicaque languages of Honduras. It does not have good support (Campbell 1997).


References

* Campbell, Lyle. (1997). ''American Indian Languages, The Historical Linguistics of Native America''. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford UP. * Campbell, Lyle, and David Oltrogge (1980). "Proto-Tol (Jicaque)." ''International Journal of American Linguistics'', 46:205-223 Proposed language families {{na-lang-stub Languages of the Americas