Zenzontepec Chatino

Zenzontepec Chatino
Northern Chatino
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
 8,500 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 czn
Glottolog zenz1235[2]

Zenzontepec Chatino, also known as Northern Chatino, or "Chatino Occidental Alto" is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, one of the Chatino family of the Oto-Manguean languages. It is not intelligible with other Chatino languages. It is spoken by one of the most isolated groups in Oaxaca, the Chatino people in the municipalities of Santa Cruz Zenzontepec and San Jacinto Tlacotepec, and in the former municipality of Santa María Tlapanalquiahuitl.[3]

Phonology

Zenzontepec Chatino has 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.[4]

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Palato-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
plain palatalized plain palatalized labialized
Stop p t /t̪/ ty /tʲ/ k ky /kʲ/ kw /kʷ/ ʔ
Affricate tz /t͡s/ ch /t͡ʃ/
Fricative s x /ʃ/ j /h/
Nasal m n /n̪/ ny /nʲ/
Approximant b /β̞/ l /l̪/ ly /lʲ/ y /j/ w
Flap r /ɾ/

References

  1. ↑ Zenzontepec Chatino at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Zenzontepec Chatino". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ "OLAC resources in and about the Zenzontepec Chatino language". Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  4. ↑ "Aspects of the phonology and morphology of Zenzontepec Chatino, a Zapotecan language of Oaxaca, Mexico". Woodbury, Anthony C. August 2014.
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