Highland Chinantec language

Highland Chinantec
Jmii’
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca Highlands
Ethnicity Chinantecs
Native speakers
 (10,000 cited 1990–1998)[1]
Oto-Mangue

  • Western Oto-Mangue

    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Dialects
  • Quiotepec Chinantec
  • Comaltepec Chinantec
  • Yolox Chinantec
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
chq – Quiotepec Chinantec
cco – Comaltepec Chinantec
Glottolog chin1488[2]

Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec, and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca. It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent.

References

  1. ↑ Quiotepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Comaltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Chinantec Group V". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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