Highland 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
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, 27''(3), 237-250.]
:1. // is heard as a glide
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;Tones
References
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References
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