Usila Chinantec
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| Usila | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca, one town in Veracruz |
| Ethnicity | Chinantecs |
Native speakers | (7,400 cited 2000)[1] |
Oto-Mangue
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cuc |
| Glottolog | usil1237 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Usila is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 50% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 85%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction).[2]
Phonology
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Like other Chinantecan and Mazatec languages, Usila Chinantec is a tonal language noted for having whistled speech. Its tone system is unusually finely graded, however, with five register tones and four contour tones.[3]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Usila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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- ^ Edmondson, Jerold A. & Gregerson, Kenneth J. (1992). On Five-level Tone Systems. In Shin Ja J. Hwang & William R. Merrifield (Eds.), Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre (pp. 555-576). Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics.