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.
Phonology Comaltepec The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec:Anderson, Judi Lynn, Martínez, Isaac H., & Pace, Wanda. (1990). Comaltepec Chinantec Tone. In William R. Merrifield & Calvin R. Rensch (Eds.), Syllables, Tone, and Verb Paradigms: Studies in Chinantec Languages 4 (pp. 3-20). Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics.Silverman, Daniel. (1997). Tone Sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec. Language, 73(3), 473-492.
+Consonants Labial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Laryngeal Nasal () Stop &Affricate Fricative () () () () () Lateral Approximant 1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants 2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised
+Vowels Front Central Back High Mid Low
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.
+ Consonants Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Laryngeal Nasal Stop Fricative Lateral Approximant Trill
1. // is heard as a glide [] after //.
+Vowels Front Back High Low
Tones
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