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Chinantec
The Chinantec or Chinantecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean family. Though traditionally considered a single language, ''Ethnologue'' lists 14 partially mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinantec.Palancar, Enrique L. (2014). Revisiting the Complexity of the Chinantecan Verb Conjugation Classes. In Jean-Léo Léonard & Alain Kihm (Eds.), ''Patterns in Mesoamerican Morphology'' (pp. 77–102). HAL 01100738 The languages are spoken by the indigenous Chinantec people who live in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, especially in the districts of Cuicatlán, Ixtlán de Juárez, Tuxtepec and Choapan, and in Staten Island, New York. Internal classification Egland and Bartholomew (1978) established fourteen Chinantec languages on the basis of 80% mutual intelligibility. ''Ethnologue'' found that one that had not been adequately compared (Tlaltepusco) was not distinct, but split another (Lalana from Tepinapa). At a looser criterion of 70% intelligibility, Lalana–Tepinap ...
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Chinantec Of Chiltepec
The Chinantec or Chinantecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean languages, Oto-Manguean family. Though traditionally considered a single language, ''Ethnologue'' lists 14 partially mutual intelligibility, mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinantec.Palancar, Enrique L. (2014). Revisiting the Complexity of the Chinantecan Verb Conjugation Classes. In Jean-Léo Léonard & Alain Kihm (Eds.), ''Patterns in Mesoamerican Morphology'' (pp. 77–102). HAL 01100738 The languages are spoken by the indigenous Chinantec people who live in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, especially in the districts of Cuicatlán, Ixtlán de Juárez, Tuxtepec and Choapan, and in Staten Island, New York. Internal classification Egland and Bartholomew (1978) established fourteen Chinantec languages on the basis of 80% mutual intelligibility. ''Ethnologue'' found that one that had not been adequately compared (Tlaltepusco) was not distinct, but split another (Lalana from Tepinapa). At a looser crite ...
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Comaltepec Chinantec
Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec, and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is .... It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent. Phonology Comaltepec The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec: :1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants :2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised ;Tones Quiotepec The following are sounds of Quiotepec Chinantec:Robbins, Frank E. (1961). Quiotepec Chinantec Syllable Patterning. ''International Journal of American Linguistics ...
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Chinantec Of Comaltepec
Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec San Juan Quiotepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 325.34 km². It is part of the Ixtlán District Ixtlán District is located in the Sierra Norte region, in the northeastern ..., and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca. It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent. Phonology Comaltepec The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec: :1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants :2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised ;Tones Quiotepec The following are sounds of Quiotepec Chinantec:Robbins, Frank E. (1961). Quiotepec Chinantec Syllable Patterning. ''International Journal of American Linguistics ...
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Quiotepec Chinantec
Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec, and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is .... It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent. Phonology Comaltepec The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec: :1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants :2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised ;Tones Quiotepec The following are sounds of Quiotepec Chinantec:Robbins, Frank E. (1961). Quiotepec Chinantec Syllable Patterning. ''International Journal of American Linguistics ...
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Palantla Chinantec
Palantla Chinantec, also known as ''Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco'', is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, has marginal mutual intelligibility. A grammar and a dictionary have been published.Merrifield, William R. 1968. Palantla Chinantec grammar. Papeles de la Chinantla 5, Serie Científica 9.México: Museo Nacional de Antropología/ref>Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 2007. Diccionario Chinanteco de la diáspora del pueblo antiguo de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, Oaxaca. nd Edition Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 39. Mexico DF: Summer Linguistic Institute Phonology Vowels Close vowels /i u/ typically are articulated as more open � ʊand are realized as more closed when represented by different tones. The close back vowel /ɯ/ tends to be articulated as �whe ...
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Sochiapan Chinantec
Sochiapam is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 66% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 75%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction). Sochiapam has seven tones: high, mid, low, high falling, mid falling, mid rising, low rising. Like other Chinantec and Mazatec languages, Sochiapam Chinantec is noted for having whistled speech Whistled languages use whistling to emulate speech and facilitate communication. A whistled language is a system of whistled communication which allows fluent whistlers to transmit and comprehend a potentially unlimited number of messages over l ... (produced only by men, but understood by all). More unusually, it has also been reported to have a rare marked absolutive case system. Phonology The following are sounds of Sochiapan Chinantec:Foris, David. (1973). Sochiapan Chinantec Syllable Structure. ''International Journal of American Linguist ...
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Valle Nacional Chinantec
Palantla Chinantec, also known as ''Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco'', is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, has marginal mutual intelligibility. A grammar and a dictionary have been published.Merrifield, William R. 1968. Palantla Chinantec grammar. Papeles de la Chinantla 5, Serie Científica 9.México: Museo Nacional de Antropología/ref>Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 2007. Diccionario Chinanteco de la diáspora del pueblo antiguo de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, Oaxaca. nd Edition Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 39. Mexico DF: Summer Linguistic Institute Phonology Vowels Close vowels /i u/ typically are articulated as more open � ʊand are realized as more closed when represented by different tones. The close back vowel /ɯ/ tends to be articulated as �when ...
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Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in northern Oaxaca in the towns of San José Chiltepec San José Chiltepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 204.13 km². It is part of the Tuxtepec District of the Papaloapan Region The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the north ..., San Juan Bautista Tlacoatzintepec, San Pedro Alianza, Santiago Quetzalapa, and San Juan Zapotitlán. 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:Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. ''Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4'', 1-8. ;Consonants :1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants :2. /r/ is an alveolar flap in unstressed syllable; a retroflexed alveopalatal groov ...
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Chinantec Of Tlacoatzintepec
Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in northern Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 570 municipaliti ... in the towns of San José Chiltepec, San Juan Bautista Tlacoatzintepec, San Pedro Alianza, Santiago Quetzalapa, and San Juan Zapotitlán. 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:Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. ''Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4'', 1-8. ;Consonants :1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants :2. /r/ is an alveolar flap in unstressed syllable; a retroflexed alveopalatal groo ...
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Tlacoatzintepec 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, San Pedro Alianza, Santiago Quetzalapa, and San Juan Zapotitlán. The two principal varieties, Chinantec and Tlacoatzintepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. They are close to Sochiapan Chinantec Sochiapam is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 66% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 75%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction). Soch .... Phonology The following are sounds of Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec:Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. ''Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4'', 1-8. ;Consonants :1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants :2. /r/ is an alveolar flap in unstressed syllable; a retroflexed alveopalatal groove ...
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Chiltepec 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, San Pedro Alianza, Santiago Quetzalapa, and San Juan Zapotitlán. The two principal varieties, Chinantec and Tlacoatzintepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. They are close to Sochiapan Chinantec Sochiapam is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 66% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 75%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction). Soch .... Phonology The following are sounds of Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec:Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. ''Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4'', 1-8. ;Consonants :1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants :2. /r/ is an alveolar flap in unstressed syllable; a retroflexed alveopalatal groove ...
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Oto-Manguean Languages
The Oto-Manguean or Otomanguean languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean branch of the family, which is now extinct, was spoken as far south as Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Oto-Manguean is widely viewed as a proven language family. However, this status has been recently challenged. The highest number of speakers of Oto-Manguean languages today are found in the state of Oaxaca where the two largest branches, the Zapotecan and Mixtecan languages, are spoken by almost 1.5 million people combined. In central Mexico, particularly in the states of Mexico, Hidalgo and Querétaro, the languages of the Oto-Pamean branch are spoken: the Otomi and the closely related Mazahua have over 500,000 speakers combined. Some Oto-Manguean languages are moribund or highly endangered; for example, Ixcatec and Matlatzinca each has fewer than 2 ...
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