Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a
Mixe language
The Mixe languages are languages of the Mixean branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico. According to a 1995 classification, there are seven of them (including one that is extinct). The four that are spoken in ...
spoken in
Mexico
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. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán,
Guichicovi, and Camotlán,
Oaxaca
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.
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
An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination. Words may contain different morphemes to determine their meanings, but all of these morphemes (including stems and affixes) tend to remai ...
.
Phonology
Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary
palatalization.
See also
* Norman Nordell'
Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary(1990) published by
SIL
References
Mixe–Zoque languages
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