Matlatzincan languages

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]

Geographic
distributionState of Mexico, Michoacán, Morelos

Linguistic classificationOto-Manguean

• Western?
  • Oto-Pame-Chinantecan
    • Oto-Pame
      • Matlatzinca

Subdivisions

• Matlatzinca
• Tlahuica/Ocuiltec

Glottologmatl1258

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Matlatzinca
Geographic distribution	State of Mexico, Michoacán, Morelos
Linguistic classification	Oto-Manguean Western? Oto-Pame-Chinantecan Oto-Pame Matlatzinca
Subdivisions	Matlatzinca Tlahuica/Ocuiltec
Language codes
Glottolog	matl1258

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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.