Cuitlatec has not been convincingly classified as belonging to any language family.
[1] Escalante Hernández suggests a possible relation to the Uto-Aztecan languages.
By the 1930s, Cuitlatec was spoken only in San Miguel Totolapan.
[2] In 1979, only two elderly women, Florentina Celso and Apolonia Robles, were able to remember about fifty words of the language.
[3] Sentences generally follow SVO word order.