Isthmus Mixe | |
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Lowland Mixe | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Northeastern Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (45,000 cited 1990–2000) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:
mco – Coatlán, Camotlán
mir – Guichicovi
mzl – Mazatlán |
Glottolog |
lowl1263 |
ELP | Lowland Mixe |
Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), [2] 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 is SOV word order. [3] It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head. [4] Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating. [4]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | |||
Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Affricate | t͡s | ||||
Fricative | ʃ | h | |||
Glide | w | j |
Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization. [4]
Front (unrounded) |
Central (unrounded) |
Back (rounded) | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
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, Camotlán
mir – Guichicovi
mzl – Mazatlán |
Glottolog |
lowl1263 |
ELP | Lowland Mixe |
Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), [2] 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 is SOV word order. [3] It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head. [4] Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating. [4]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | |||
Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Affricate | t͡s | ||||
Fricative | ʃ | h | |||
Glide | w | j |
Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization. [4]
Front (unrounded) |
Central (unrounded) |
Back (rounded) | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |