Palantla Chinantec | |
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Tlatepuzco Chinantec | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca |
Ethnicity | Chinantecs |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2007)[1] |
Oto-Mangue
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:cpa – Palantla Chinanteccvn – Valle Nacional Chinantec |
Glottolog | pala1351 Palantlavall1253 Valle Nacional |
ELP | Lower Central Chinantec |
Palantla Chinantec, also known as Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, has marginal mutual intelligibility.
A grammar and a dictionary have been published.[2][3]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | ||
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unrounded | rounded | |||
Close | i | ɯ | u | |
Mid | ɛ | ɤ | o | |
Open | a |
Close vowels /i u/ typically are articulated as more open [ɪ ʊ] and are realized as more closed when represented by different tones. The close back vowel /ɯ/ tends to be articulated as [ə] when present in vowel clusters following /u/, or when preceding the /j/ consonant, and may also have a higher central sound. The mid back vowel /ɤ/ tends to be articulated as [ɜ] or [ɨ] when preceding a /w/ consonant. The low central vowel /a/ tends to be realized as [ɐ] following /i/ when one of the consonants /t l n/ occurs.
Each vowel can be nasalized as /ĩ ɯ̃ ũ ɛ̃ ɤ̃ õ ã/. The language is unusual in having, for some speakers, a three-way contrast between non-nasalized, lightly nasalized, and heavily nasalized vowels.[4]
Stress tones may include either high or low /v́ v̀/ tones.[5][2]
Consonants
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | ||||
voiced | d͡z | |||||
Fricative | ɸ | s | h | |||
Approximant | w | l | j | |||
Rhotic | r |
References
[edit]- ^ Palantla Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Valle Nacional Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ a b Merrifield, William R. 1968. Palantla Chinantec grammar. Papeles de la Chinantla 5, Serie Científica 9.México: Museo Nacional de Antropología. [1]
- ^ Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 2007. Diccionario Chinanteco de la diáspora del pueblo antiguo de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, Oaxaca. [2nd Edition]. Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 39. Mexico DF: Summer Linguistic Institute. [2].
- ^ Juliette Blevins (2004). Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns. Cambridge University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-521-80428-8.
- ^ Merrifield, William R. (1963). Palantla Chinantec Syllable Types. Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 5, No. 5: Anthropological Linguistics. pp. 1–16.
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