Palantla Chinantec

Palantla Chinantec
Tlatepuzco Chinantec
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Ethnicity Chinantecs
Native speakers
 25,000 (2007)[1]
Oto-Mangue

  • Western Oto-Mangue

    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
cpa – Palantla Chinantec
cvn – Valle Nacional Chinantec
Glottolog a/pala1351  (Palantla)[2]
vall1253  (Valle Nacional)[3]

Palantla Chinantec, also known as Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, is a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, has marginal mutual intelligibility.

A grammar and a dictionary have been published.[4][5]

The language is unusual in having, for some speakers, a three-way contrast between non-nasalized, lightly nasalized, and heavily nasalized vowels.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Palantla Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Valle Nacional Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Palantla Chinantec". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Valle Nacional Chinantec". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Merrifield, William R. 1968. Palantla Chinantec grammar. Papeles de la Chinantla 5, Serie Científica 9.México: Museo Nacional de Antropología.
  5. ↑ Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 2007. Diccionario Chinanteco de la diáspora del pueblo antiguo de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, Oaxaca. [2nd Edition]. Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 39. Mexico DF: Summer Linguistic Institute..
  6. ↑ Juliette Blevins (2004). Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns. Cambridge University Press. p. 203.
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