Tilapa Otomi

Tilapa Otomi is a seriously endangered native American language spoken by less than a dozen people in the village of Santiago Tilapa, between Toluca and the DF in Mexico State. It has been classified as Eastern Otomi by Lastra (2006).^[1] but in reality "Eastern Otomi" in Lastra's classification is a broader term for a "conservative variety". It is a language closely related to Acazulco and Atlapulco Otomi. It also shows a number of idiosyncratic innovations which make it stand as a different language, probably the closest one to Colonial Otomi. Its system of verbal conjugations is highly complex compared to the Mezquital varieties.^[2]

Tilapa Otomi
Ñųhų
Native to	Mexico
Region	Santiago Tilapa
Native speakers	100 (2006)[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Oto-Pamean Otomian Eastern Tilapa Otomi
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	otl
Glottolog	tila1239
ELP	Tilapa Otomí

Notes

1. Lastra, Yolanda (2006). Los Otomies – Su lengua y su historia (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Instituto de investigaciones Antropológicas. ISBN 9789703233885.
2. Palancar, Enrique (2012). "The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi: An approach from canonical typology" (PDF). Linguistics. 50 (4). doi:10.1515/ling-2012-0025. S2CID 55777801.