Coatzospan Mixtec

Coatzospan Mixtec
(San Juan Coatzóspam)
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Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Native speakers	(2,100 cited 2000)
Language family	Oto-Manguean Mixtecan Mixtec Coatzospan–Cuyamecalco Coatzospan Mixtec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	miz
Glottolog	coat1241
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Coatzospan Mixtec (Coatzóspam Mixtec) is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the town of San Juan Coatzospan.

Phonology

Consonants in parentheses are marginal.

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar
							plain	labial
Nasal		m		n		ɲ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	(p)		t	ts	tʲ ~ tʃ	k	kʷ
	prenasal	(ᵐb)		ⁿd	(ⁿdz)	(ⁿdʲ ~ ⁿdʒ)	(ᵑɡ)	(ᵑɡʷ)
Fricative		β	ð (ðʲ)	(s)		ʃ
Liquid				l (r)

In women's speech, is realized as before front vowels.

Vowel qualities are . Vowels may be oral or nasal, creaky or modal, long or short: e.g. "to go". is apparently never contrastively nasalized, though it may be phonetically nasalized due to assimilation with a nasal vowel in a following syllable, and morphologically nasalized for the second-person familiar (e.g. 'to come', 'you will come'). The preceding vowel nasalizes only if the intervening consonant is voiced, or in some words . Nonetheless, even voiceless fricatives and affricates are phonetically nasalized in such environments: ; the nasalization is visible in the flaring of the nostrils.

The first vowel of a disyllable is creaky if the second consonant is voiceless (except for ); only when C2 is voiced or can there be a contrast between creaky and modal vowels in V1. The irregular behavior is apparently due to it deriving from proto-Mixtec from both voiceless velar and voiced ("*y"). It is words in which derives from *j that allow V1 to be nasalized or contrastively modally voiced.

Tones are ...

References

• Gerfen, Chip. 1999. Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 48). Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
• Gerfen, Chip (2001). "Nasalized Fricatives in Coatzospan Mixtec". International Journal of American Linguistics. 67 (4): 449–466. doi:10.1086/466471. JSTOR 1265756. S2CID 144266099.
• Pike, Eunice V. & Priscilla C. Small. 1974. Downstepping terrace tone in Coatzospan Mixtec. In Ruth M. Brend (ed.), Advances in tagmemics (North-Holland Linguistic Series 9), 105-34. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

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