Coatzospan Mixtec

Coatzospan Mixtec
	(San Juan Coatzóspam)
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Native speakers	2,100 (2000)[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Mixtecan Mixtec Coatzospan–Cuyamecalco Coatzospan Mixtec; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	miz
Glottolog	coat1241[2]

Coatzospan Mixtec (Coatzóspam Mixtec) is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the town of San Juan Coatzospan.

Phonology

Consonants in parentheses are marginal:

Consonants[3]
m		n	ɲ
(p)		t		k	kʷ
(mb)		nd		(ŋɡ)	(ŋɡʷ)
		ts	tʲ ~ tʃ
		(ndz)	(ndʲ ~ ndʒ)
β	ð (ðʲ)	(s)	ʃ
		l (r)

In women's speech, /t/ is realized as [tʃ] before front vowels.

Vowel qualities are /a ɨ e i o u/. Vowels may be oral or nasal, creaky or modal, long or short: e.g. /kɨ̰̃ː/ "to go". /o/ is apparently never contrastively nasalized, though it may be phonetically nasalized due to assimilation with a nasal vowel in a following syllable, and morphologically nasalized for the second-person familiar (e.g. /kḭʃi/ 'to come', /kḭʃĩ/ 'you will come'). The preceding vowel nasalizes only if the intervening consonant is voiced, or in some words /ʃ/. Nonetheless, even voiceless fricatives and affricates are phonetically nasalized in such environments: [β̃, ð̃, ts̃, ʃ̃]; the nasalization is visible in the flaring of the nostrils.

The first vowel of a disyllable is creaky if the second consonant is voiceless (except for /ʃ/); only when C2 is voiced or /ʃ/ can there be a contrast between creaky and modal vowels in V1. The irregular behavior /ʃ/ is apparently due to it deriving from proto-Mixtec from both voiceless velar */x/ and voiced */j/ ("*y"). It is words in which /ʃ/ derives from *j that allow V1 to be nasalized or contrastively modally voiced.

Tones are ...

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gollark: Well, I don't care enough.

gollark: > Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing, either by blocking all read/write access to the flash chip or by crashing (it may power off the machine or mess with the battery or cause system instability). Fascinating.

gollark: It does not see flash.

References

Coatzospan Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coatzospan Mixtec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Gerfen 2001

Gerfen, Chip. 1999. Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 48). Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
Gerfen, Chip. 2001. Nasalized Fricatives in Coatzospan Mixtec. International Journal of American Linguistics 67.4: 449-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1265756
Pike, Eunice V. & Priscilla C. Small. 1974. Downstepping terrace tone in Coatzospan Mixtec. In Ruth M. Brend (ed.), Advances in tagmemics (North-Holland Linguistic Series 9), 105-34. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

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[e18-1] Coatzospan Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coatzospan Mixtec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Gerfen 2001