Midland a.k.a. Central Mixe 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
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. According to Wichmann (1995), there are two groups of dialects:
;North:Jaltepec, Puxmetecán, Atitlán, Matamoros, Cotzocón
;South: Juquila, Cacalotepec
''Ethnologue'' lists Mixistlán as well, but Wichmann counts that as
Tlahuitoltepec Mixe.
A new variety of Midland Mixe has been recently documented in the village of San Juan Bosco Chuxnabá in
San Miguel Quetzaltepec
San Miguel Quetzaltepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.
It is part of the Sierra Mixe district within the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca Region.
The name "Quetzaltepec" means "hill of the quetzal", a tiny bird with a large ...
municipality,
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 ...
by Carmen Jany and other linguists.
[http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/4481/jany.pdf;jsessionid=C40A89F204744A496CE63E8B2FD9133A?sequence=1 ]
Phonology
The three vowels resulting in a suprasegmental palatalization then range to three vowel qualities
,
References
Mixe–Zoque languages
Languages of Mexico
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