 The language is also spoken in Mexico in communities in Veracruz and Querétaro, places where the "chipileños" settled as well.Immigrants mainly from the comune of Segusino, some 60 km northwest of Venice, arrived in 1868, at which point contact with speakers of the language in its homeland and elsewhere was reduced to near nil.The community maintained its unique culture and language as a linguistic enclave, in contact with Nahuan languages and Spanish.