Midland Mixe
Mixe language of Oaxaca, Mexico
Midland a.k.a. Central Mixe is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. According to Wichmann (1995), there are two groups of dialects:
- North
- Jaltepec, Puxmetecán, Atitlán, Matamoros, Cotzocón
- South
- Juquila, Cacalotepec
Ethnologue lists Mixistlán as well, but Wichmann counts that as Tlahuitoltepec Mixe.
A new variety of Midland Mixe has been recently documented in the village of San Juan Bosco Chuxnabá in San Miguel Quetzaltepec municipality, Oaxaca by Carmen Jany and other linguists.
01Phonology
Orthography from Jany (2011) is in angle brackets where it differs from IPA.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n̪ ⟨n⟩ | |||
| Plosive | p ⟨p⟩ | t̪ ⟨t⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | ʔ ⟨’⟩ | |
| Affricate | ts | (tʃ) ⟨ch⟩ | |||
| Fricative | ʃ ⟨x⟩ | h ⟨j⟩ | |||
| Glide | w | j ⟨y⟩ |
Spanish loanwords contain eight additional phonemes: /b, d, g, f, s, ɾ, r, l/.
Vowels
/æ/ ⟨ä⟩, /ø/ ⟨ö⟩, and /ʊ/ ⟨ü⟩ are marginal vowels. [ø] and [ʊ] only occur as allophones of /o/ and /u/, respectively, in palatalized environments, and [æ] sometimes alternates with /a/.
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