Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec | |
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Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca |
Ethnicity | Chinantecs |
Native speakers | 1,800? (2000)[1] |
Oto-Mangue
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:csa – Chiltepec Chinantecctl – Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec |
Glottolog | tlac1238 |
ELP | Northwestern Chinantec |
Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in northern Oaxaca in the towns of San José Chiltepec, San Juan Bautista Tlacoatzintepec, , , and . The two principal varieties, Chinantec and Tlacoatzintepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. They are close to Sochiapan Chinantec.
Phonology[]
The following are sounds of Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec:[2]
- Consonants
Bilabial | Interdental | Alveolar | Velar | Laryngeal | ||
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Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Voiced | (b) | ɡ | ||||
Affricate | Voiceless | ts | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Fricative | Voiceless | (ɸ) | θ | s | h | |
Voiced | ð | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Flap | ɾ |
- 1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants
- 2. /r/ is an alveolar flap in unstressed syllable; a retroflexed alveopalatal grooved affricate in a stressed syllable
- 3. /t, ts, θ, l, s, n, ŋ, k, ɡ, h/ can be palatalised before the semivowel /j/
- 4. /p, ŋ, k, ɡ, h/ can be labialised before the semivowel /w/
- Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
High | i | ɨ • u | |
Mid | e | ɘ • o | |
Low | a |
- 1. Vowels to the left of the bullet dot are unrounded; to the right rounded
- Vowels
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References[]
- ^ Chiltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4, 1-8.
Categories:
- Chinantec languages