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 to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca, Veracruz |
| Ethnicity | Chinantecs |
Native speakers | 38,000 (2000)[1] |
Oto-Mangue
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | chj |
| Glottolog | ojit1237[2] |
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | 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 | |||||
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References
- Ojitlán Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ojitlan Chinantec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Macaulay, Monica (1999). Ojitlán Chinantec Phonology and Morphology. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 24.
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