Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec is a

Chinantecan language 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 ...

of Mexico, spoken in northern

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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 Juan Bautista Tlacoatzintepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the nor ...

, San Pedro Alianza,

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, 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). Sochi ...

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 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 :1. Vowels to the left of the bullet dot are unrounded; to the right rounded ;Vowels

References

{{Oto-Manguean languages Chinantec languages