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Matlatzincan languages

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Matlatzinca
Geographic
distribution
State of Mexico, Michoacán, Morelos
Linguistic classificationOto-Manguean
  • Western?
Subdivisions
Glottologmatl1258
1640 text on the language by Fray Diego Basalenque

The Matlatzincan languages are a pair of closely related branches of the Oto-Manguean language family in the Oto-Pamean group, spoken in Central Mexico: Tlahuica/Ocuiltec in one and Matlatzinca-Pirinda in the other. They were variously understood as a single macrolanguage or as two distinct languages, and today most linguists[who?] and speakers consider them to be separate. Both Matlatzinca and Tlahuica are moribund, and Pirinda went fully extinct in 1936.[1]

In 2003, together with 67 other languages, Matlatzinca was recognised as an official language of Mexico[2] as an official language on equal footing with Spanish.

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  1. ^ León, Nicolás (1944). Origen, estado actual y geografía del idioma pirinda o matlatzinca en el estado de Michoacán.
  2. ^ Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine ("General Law of the Linguistic Rights of Indigenous peoples"), decree published 13 March 2003