Maps of Totonakan

Mexico: Mesoamerican Languages (Public Content)


Mesoamerican Languages

Source:   Wikimedia Commons. Mesoamerican Languages.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   GNU Free Documentation License
Date Downloaded:   4-Jan-2007

Map Description:
Map showing the languages of Mesoamerican (Some smaller languages are missing, particularly the languages of the Mayan highlands and Oaxaca)



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Totonakan in Contemporary Meso-America


Totonakan in Contemporary Meso-America

Source:   LINGUIST List "Totonacan: Composite 2008." The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Data Source: Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Meso-America. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 57. Oxford: Routledge.

Date Digitized:   22 June 2011

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Totonakan languages are spoken today. Totonako speakers and Tepewa speakers number around 230,000 and 10,000 respectively, although the number of those who are dialectal speakers is unknown. (Asher, Moseley et al.).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Contemporary Meso-American Languages) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


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