MÉXICO PLURAL: Los chatinos de Oaxaca, México.

The Chatino are an indigenous people of Mexico living in the southwest of the state of Oaxaca. They call themselves Kitse Cha'tnio. The Chatino language is a family of indigenous languages ​​that is part of the Zapotec language group, part of the eastern branch of the Oto-Manguean language family. It is spoken by approximately 50,000 individuals belonging to the Chatino ethnic group. The Chatino are a people very similar in language and culture to the Zapotec, whose languages ​​constitute the other part of the Zapotec language group. The Chatino call their own language Chat'ña, which means difficult word. The Chatino language is recognized as a national language in Mexico.