 The Oto-Manguean languages are spoken mainly in Mexico and it is thought that the Mangue people moved south from Mexico together with the speakers of Subtiaba and Chiapanec well before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas.Some sources list ""Choluteca"" as an alternative name of the people and their language, and this has caused some (for example Terrence Kaufman 2001) to speculate that they were the original inhabitants of the city of Cholula, who were displaced with the arrival of Nahua people in central Mexico.The etymology for the nomenclature "Chorotega" in this case would come from the Nahuatl language where ""Cholōltēcah"" means "inhabitants of Cholula", or "people who have fled".