Tlahuitoltepec Mixe

Tlahuitoltepec Mixe, called South Highland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico.

Tlahuitoltepec Mixe
South Highland Mixe
Ayuujk
Native toMexico
RegionNortheastern Oaxaca
Native speakers
16,800 (2000)[1]
Mixe–Zoque
Language codes
ISO 639-3mxp
Glottologtlah1239[2]

South Highland Mixe consists of a core dialect, spoken in the towns of Tlahuitoltepec, San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla, and Tamazulapan, with divergent dialects in Tepuxtepec, Tepantlali, and Mixistlán. It is a polysynthetic language with head marking and an inverse system.[3]

Phonology

This phonology is from the Ayulta dialect.[3]

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Close-mid e ɤ
Open-mid ʌ
Open a
Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop p t k ʔ
Affricate t͡s
Fricative s ʂ h
Nasal m n
Approximant j
gollark: Not currently.
gollark: vro?
gollark: osmarks.tk is also reachable over the yggdrasil mesh network.
gollark: I wanted to run https://github.com/oragono/oragono. Is this compatible?
gollark: Fun!

References
    1. "Mixe, Tlahuitoltepec". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
    2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tlahuitoltepec Mixe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
    3. "A reference grammar of Ayutla Mixe (Tukyo'm ayuujk) - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.


    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.