Highland Chinantec language
Highland Chinantec | |
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Jmii’ | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca Highlands |
Ethnicity | Chinantecs |
Native speakers | unknown (10,000 cited 1990–1998)[1] |
Oto-Mangue
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Dialects |
Quiotepec Chinantec
Comaltepec Chinantec
Yolox Chinantec
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either: chq – Quiotepec Chinantec cco – Comaltepec Chinantec |
Glottolog |
chin1488 [2] |
Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec, and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca. 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.
References
- ↑ Quiotepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Comaltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chinantec Group V". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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