Highland Chinantec is a
Chinantecan language
The Chinantec or Chinantecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean family. Though traditionally considered a single language, '' Ethnologue'' lists 14 partially mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinantec.Palancar, Enrique L. (2014 ...
of Mexico, spoken in
Comaltepec,
San Juan Quiotepec
San Juan Quiotepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 325.34 km².
It is part of the Ixtlán District
Ixtlán District is located in the Sierra Norte region, in the northeastern a ...
, and surrounding towns in northern
Oaxaca
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. It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent.
Phonology
Comaltepec
The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec:
:1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants
:2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised
;Tones
Quiotepec
The following are sounds of Quiotepec Chinantec:
[Robbins, Frank E. (1961). Quiotepec Chinantec Syllable Patterning. ''International Journal of American Linguistics, 27''(3), 237-250.]
:1. // is heard as a glide
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;Tones
References
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References
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