Isthmus Mixe
Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995)[3], is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán, Guichicovi, and Camotlán, Oaxaca.
| Isthmus Mixe | |
|---|---|
| Lowland Mixe | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Northeastern Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (45,000 cited 1990–2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:mco – Coatlán, Camotlánmir – Guichicovimzl – Mazatlán |
| Glottolog | lowl1263[2] |
Grammar
Isthmus Mixe is SOV word order.[4] It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head.[5] Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating.[5]
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||
| Fricative | ʃ | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | w | j |
Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization.[5]
| Front (unrounded) | Central (unrounded) | Back (rounded) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
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See also
- Norman Nordell's Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary (1990) published by SIL
References
- Coatlán, Camotlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Guichicovi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Mazatlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lowland Mixe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Wichmann, Søren (1995). The relationship among the Mixe-Zoquean languages of Mexico. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874804874. OCLC 32589134.
- Dieterman, Julia (2002-09-13). "Word order variation in Isthmus Mixe: voice and discourse considerations". SIL International. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- Dieterman, Julia (2008). "Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: a phonetic and phonological account". SIL International. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
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