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The Chinantec or Chinantecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean family. Though traditionally considered a single language Ethnologue lists 14 partially mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinantec. The languages are spoken by the indigenous Chinantec people that live in Oaxaca and Veracruz Mexico especially in the districts of Cuicatlán Ixtlán de Juárez Tuxtepec and Choapan and in Staten Island New York.
