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Tlapaneco Indian Language (Me'phaa, Tlapaneca, Tlapanec)

Tlapaneco is an Oto-Manguean language of Mexico. There are four different varieties of Tlapaneco, which are considered separate languages by some people and dialects of the same language by others. Taken together there are at least 120,000 speakers of Tlapaneco languages in Mexico today. They are tone languages and have primarily VSO word order.

˜Tlapaneco Language Resources –

Our Online Tlapaneco Materials

Tlapaneco Vocabulary:
Our list of vocabulary words in the Tlapaneco language.

Tlapaneco Animal Words:
Illustrated glossary of animal words in the Tlapaneco language.

Tlapaneco Language Lessons and Linguistic Descriptions

Me'phaa (Tlapaneca):
Overview of the Tlapanecan languages including grammatical information and a language map.

Language Museum: Tlapaneco (Malinaltepec):
Tlapaneco translations of Bible passages.

Tlapanec:
Wikipedia article about the Tlapaneco language.

Acatepec Me'phaa

Azoyú Me'phaa

Malinaltepec Me'phaa

Tlacoapa Me'phaa:
Demographic information about the Tlapanec languages from the Ethnologue of Languages.

Links, References, and Additional Information

Tlapanec People

Tlapanec Languages:
    Encyclopedia articles about the Tlapanecs.
   Lengua Malinaltepec:
    Information on the Tlapaneco language in Spanish.

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