Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a
Mixe language spoken in
Mexico. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán,
Guichicovi, and Camotlán,
Oaxaca.
Grammar
Isthmus Mixe is
SOV word order.
It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head.
Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as
agglutinating.
Phonology
Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary
palatalization
Palatalization may refer to:
*Palatalization (phonetics), the phonetic feature of palatal secondary articulation
*Palatalization (sound change)
Palatalization is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulation ...
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See also
* Norman Nordell'
Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary(1990) published by
SIL
SIL, Sil and sil may refer to:
Organizations
* Servis Industries Limited, Pakistan
* Smithsonian Institution Libraries
* SIL International, formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics
* Apex Silver Mines (former American Stock Exchange ticker symb ...
References
Mixe–Zoque languages
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