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Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
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Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 48
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BACKGROUND This book focuses on two major issues - vowel
glottalization and nasalization - in the phonology and phonetics of
Coatzospan Mixtec (henceforth CM). CM is an Otomanguean language
currently spoken by roughly 2000 people (Small 1990) in the village
of San Juan Coatzospan, which is located in the Sierra Mazateca of
northern Oaxaca, Mexico.' Though Mixtec constitutes a major branch
of the Otomanguean family, the so-called dialects are most
appropriately viewed as distinct languages. According to Josserand
(1982), there are at least 22 mutually unintelligible varieties of
Mixtec. For its part, CM is among the most isolated. Located in the
mountains, the village is surrounded entirely by Mazatec speaking
communities. Only two other Mixtec languages exhibit over a 25%
rate of mutual intelligibility with CM (Josserand 1982). And though
it is not clear how this group of Mixtecs came to settle in what is
a Mazatec speaking area, their isolation has given rise to special
properties not shared by other varieties of the language. Major
elements of both the phonology of vowel glottalization and
nasalization under focus in this book are, to my knowledge, unique
to CM among the Mixtec languages.
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