Totonako
Papantla Totonac
Elm ParkCommunity Profile: NYC's Mexican population tripled in the 1990s, with the largest numbers arriving from Puebla and later Guerrero, south-central states with large Indigenous communities. One informal survey found that up to 17 percent of Mexican New Yorkers may speak an Indigenous language, with Mixtec and Nahuatl varieties the most widely spoken, possibly by tens of thousands. Indigenous Mexicans have generally settled among other Mexicans, and Mexicans have generally settled among other Spanish speakers in neighborhoods across the city and the region.
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he term Totonac refers to a cluster of approximately nine closely related Indigenous languages spoken by an estimated 280,000 people in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Puebla. The Endangered Language Alliance has been working for several years with Sierra Totonac speaker and curandero José Juárez, originally from the city of Tuxtla in Puebla and now living and running his store Leecatzin in Clifton, New Jersey. There are also speakers of Papantla Totonac in the city. Read more here.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.