Usila Chinantec

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Usila
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca, one town in Veracruz
EthnicityChinantecs
Native speakers
(7,400 cited 2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
Language codes
ISO 639-3cuc
Glottologusil1237
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Usila is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 50% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 85%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction).[2]

Phonology

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the register-tone inventory of Usila Chinantec

Like other Chinantecan and Mazatec languages, Usila Chinantec is a tonal language noted for having whistled speech. Its tone system is unusually finely graded, however, with five register tones and four contour tones.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Usila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chinantec, Usila | Ethnologue".
  3. ^ Edmondson, Jerold A. & Gregerson, Kenneth J. (1992). On Five-level Tone Systems. In Shin Ja J. Hwang & William R. Merrifield (Eds.), Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre (pp. 555-576). Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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