Coatzospan Mixtec
Coatzospan Mixtec (Coatzóspam Mixtec) is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the town of San Juan Coatzospan.
| Coatzospan Mixtec | |
|---|---|
| (San Juan Coatzóspam) | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca |
Native speakers | 2,100 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | miz |
| Glottolog | coat1241 |
| ELP | Northern Alta Mixtec (shared)[2] |
Phonology
Consonants in parentheses are marginal:
| m | n | ɲ | |||
| (p) | t | k | kʷ | ||
| (mb) | nd | (ŋɡ) | (ŋɡʷ) | ||
| ts | tʲ ~ tʃ | ||||
| (ndz) | (ndʲ ~ ndʒ) | ||||
| β | ð (ðʲ) | (s) | ʃ | ||
| l (r) |
In women's speech, /t/ is realized as [tʃ] before front vowels.
Vowel qualities are /a ɨ e i o u/. Vowels may be oral or nasal, creaky or modal, long or short: e.g. /kɨ̰̃ː/ "to go". /o/ is apparently never contrastively nasalized, though it may be phonetically nasalized due to assimilation with a nasal vowel in a following syllable, and morphologically nasalized for the second-person familiar (e.g. /kḭʃi/ 'to come', /kḭʃĩ/ 'you will come'). The preceding vowel nasalizes only if the intervening consonant is voiced, or in some words /ʃ/. Nonetheless, even voiceless fricatives and affricates are phonetically nasalized in such environments: [β̃, ð̃, ts̃, ʃ̃]; the nasalization is visible in the flaring of the nostrils.
The first vowel of a disyllable is creaky if the second consonant is voiceless (except for /ʃ/); only when C2 is voiced or /ʃ/ can there be a contrast between creaky and modal vowels in V1. The irregular behavior /ʃ/ is apparently due to it deriving from proto-Mixtec from both voiceless velar */x/ and voiced */j/ ("*y"). It is words in which /ʃ/ derives from *j that allow V1 to be nasalized or contrastively modally voiced.
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References
- Coatzospan Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Northern Alta Mixtec (shared).
- Gerfen 2001
- Gerfen, Chip. 1999. Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 48). Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
- Gerfen, Chip. 2001. Nasalized Fricatives in Coatzospan Mixtec. International Journal of American Linguistics 67.4: 449-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1265756
- Pike, Eunice V. & Priscilla C. Small. 1974. Downstepping terrace tone in Coatzospan Mixtec. In Ruth M. Brend (ed.), Advances in tagmemics (North-Holland Linguistic Series 9), 105-34. Amsterdam: North-Holland.