Eastern Chatino
Chatino language
Highland Chatino is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, one of the Chatino family of the Oto-Manguean languages. Dialects are rather diverse; neighboring dialects are about 80% mutually intelligible.
For grammatical details, see Chatino languages, which includes examples from Yaitepec dialect.
Dialects
Eastern Chatino is spoken in 14 dialects in 17 communities that centered on the economic and cultural centers of Santa Catarina Juquila and Santiago Yaitepec. ISO assigns these dialects to four groups with different language codes, but there is no objective evidence that the dialects grouped together are closest to each other. Dialects include:
Lachao-Yolotepec
Yaitepec
Panixtlahuaca
Quiahije
Nopala
Zacatepec
Phonology
Yaitepec Chatino
Yaitepec Chatino has the following phonemic consonants (Rasch 2002):
Sounds /d͡z, ʒ/ only rarely occur.
Other fricative sounds /ð, ɣ/ may also appear as a result of Spanish loanwords.
/hʷ/ is heard as a labio-dental [f] when preceding consonants.
Nasals when preceding consonants, are heard as syllabic [n̩, m̩].
A bilabial nasal /m/ can also be written as ⟨nw⟩ orthographically.
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