Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in northern Oaxaca in the towns of San José Chiltepec, San Juan Bautista Tlacoatzintepec, San Pedro Alianza, Santiago Quetzalapa, and San Juan Zapotitlán. The two principal varieties, Chinantec and Tlacoatzintepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. They are close to Sochiapan Chinantec.
Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec | |
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Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca |
Ethnicity | Chinantecs |
Native speakers | 1,800? (2000)[1] |
Oto-Mangue
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:csa – Chiltepec Chinantecctl – Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec |
Glottolog | tlac1238 |
ELP | Northwestern Chinantec |
Phonology
editThe following are sounds of Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec:[2]
Consonants
editBilabial | Interdental | Alveolar | Velar | Laryngeal | ||
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Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Voiced | (b) | ɡ | ||||
Affricate | ts | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Fricative | Voiceless | (ɸ) | θ | s | h | |
Voiced | ð | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Flap | ɾ |
- 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
editFront | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ɨ • u | |
Mid | e | ɘ • o | |
Low | a |
- 1. Vowels to the left of the bullet dot are unrounded; to the right rounded
References
edit- ^ Chiltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4, 1-8.