Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec

Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Ethnicity	Chinantecs
Native speakers	1,800? (2000)[1]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Western Oto-Mangue Oto-Pame–Chinantecan Chinantec Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; csa – Chiltepec Chinantec; ctl – Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec
Glottolog	tlac1238
ELP	Northwestern Chinantec[2]

Chiltepec-Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in northern Oaxaca 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.

Phonology

The following are sounds of Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec:[3]

		Bilabial	Interdental	Alveolar	Velar	Laryngeal
Stop	Voiceless	p		t	k	ʔ
Stop	Voiced	(b)			ɡ
Affricate	Voiceless			ts
Nasal		m		n	ŋ
Fricative	Voiceless	(ɸ)	θ	s		h
Fricative	Voiced		ð
Lateral				l
Flap				ɾ

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/

1. Vowels to the left of the bullet dot are unrounded; to the right rounded

Chiltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Endangered Languages Project data for Northwestern Chinantec.
Thelin, Anders. (1980). Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec Syllable Structure. Summer Institute of Linguistics Mexico Workpapers, 4, 1-8.

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