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The Tlapanec people is an ethnic group indigenous to the Mexican state of Guerrero.Their language Me’phaa is a part of the Oto-Manguean language family. The now extinct Subtiaba language of Nicaragua was a closely related language. Today Tlapanecs live primarily in the state of Guerrero a number more than 98000.In pre-Columbian times they lived in the isolated mountain area along the Costa Chica region of Guerrero just southeast of present-day Acapulco.