Waterhouse Viola. Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca

México, D.F.: El Colegio de México, Centro de Investigación para la Integración Social (Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México), 1980. — 173 (174) p.This volume contains information on Chontal, an indigenous language of Mexico spoken in the mountains of Oaxaca. Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca (Highland Oaxaca Chontal) is one of the two members of the Tequistlatecan language family (isolate or Hokan or Jicaque). The name Chontal comes from the Nahuatl word for "foreigner", Chontal de la Sierra has nothing to do with Chontal of Tabasco which is a Mayan language. The objective of collecting such a representative sampling of the linguistic richness of the region was to store it for typological and historic comparisons. To gather data, questionnaires designed to elicit responses that would reveal the linguistics, vocabulary, grammar, and syntax of the language were administered to the indigenous people of the area.