Chinantec of Ojitlán

Ojitlán Chinantec (Chinanteco de San Lucas Ojitlán) is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in four towns in San Lucas Ojitlán of northern Oaxaca, and in the Veracruz municipos of Minatitlán and Hidalgotitlán.

Ojitlán Chinantec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca, Veracruz
EthnicityChinantecs
Native speakers
38,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
      • Chinantec
        • Ojitlán Chinantec
Language codes
ISO 639-3chj
Glottologojit1237[2]

Phonology

Vowels
FrontCentral Back
Close i ɯ u
Mid e ɤ o
Open a

Each vowel can be nasalized as /ĩ ɯ̃ ũ ẽ ɤ̃ õ ã/.

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p t k ɡ ʔ
Affricate t͡s t͡ʃ
Fricative s ʃ h
Rhotic r
Nasal voiced m n ŋ
voiceless m̥ n̥ ŋ̊
Lateral voiced l ɭ
voiceless ɭ̥
Approximant voiced w j
voiceless w̥ j̊

[3]

References
  1. Ojitlán Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ojitlan Chinantec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Macaulay, Monica (1999). Ojitlán Chinantec Phonology and Morphology. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 24.
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