Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec is a
Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in northern
Oaxaca
Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...
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
Sochiapam ( ) is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 66% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 75%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction).
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Phonology
The following are sounds of Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec:
[Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. ''Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4'', 1-8.]
Consonants
: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
:1. Vowels to the left of the bullet dot are unrounded; to the right rounded
References
{{Oto-Manguean languages
Chinantec languages