Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec

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Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
EthnicityChinantecs
Native speakers
1,800? (2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
      • Chinantec
        • Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
csa – Chiltepec Chinantec
ctl – Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Glottologtlac1238
ELPNorthwestern 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
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

References[]

  1. ^ Chiltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4, 1-8.
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