Isthmus Mixe
(Redirected from Lowland Mixe)
| Isthmus Mixe | |
|---|---|
| Lowland Mixe | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Northeastern Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (45,000 cited 1990–2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:mco – Coatlán, Camotlánmir – Guichicovimzl – Mazatlán |
| Glottolog | lowl1263 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995),[2] is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán, Guichicovi, and Camotlán, Oaxaca.
Grammar
[edit | edit source]Isthmus Mixe is SOV word order.[3] It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head.[4] Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating.[4]
Phonology
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| Affricate | t͡s | ||||
| Fricative | ʃ | h | |||
| Glide | w | j |
Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization.[4]
| Front (unrounded) |
Central (unrounded) |
Back (rounded) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
See also
[edit | edit source]- Norman Nordell's Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary (1990) published by SIL
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Coatlán, Camotlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Guichicovi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Mazatlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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