Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec

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
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
EthnicityChinantecs
Native speakers
1,800? (2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
csa – Chiltepec Chinantec
ctl – Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Glottologtlac1238
ELPNorthwestern Chinantec

Phonology

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The following are sounds of Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec:[2]

Consonants

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Bilabial Interdental Alveolar Velar Laryngeal
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

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Front Central Back
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

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  1. ^ Chiltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4, 1-8.