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The Matlatzincan languages are a pair of closely related branches of the Oto-Manguean language family in the Oto-Pamean group, spoken in Central Mexico: Tlahuica/Ocuiltec in one and Matlatzinca-Pirinda in the other. They were variously understood as a single macrolanguage or as two distinct languages, and today most linguists and speakers consider them to be separate. Both Matlatzinca and Tlahuica are moribund, and Pirinda went fully extinct in 1936.

In 2003, together with 67 other languages, Matlatzinca was recognised as an official language of Mexico as an official language on equal footing with Spanish.

See also

• Matlatzinca people
• Languages of Mexico
• Oto-Manguean languages

Notes

1. León, Nicolás (1944). Origen, estado actual y geografía del idioma pirinda o matlatzinca en el estado de Michoacán.
2. Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine ("General Law of the Linguistic Rights of Indigenous peoples"), decree published 13 March 2003

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