Chiapanec language

Chiapanec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Chiapas
Ethnicity	32 Chiapanec (1990)
Extinct	ca. 2000? [1]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Manguean Chiapanec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cip
Glottolog	chia1262
ELP	Chiapanec

Chiapanec is a presumably extinct indigenous Mexican language of the Oto-Manguean language family believed to have been spoken by the Chiapanec people in the Central Depression of the Mexican state of Chiapas, especially in Chiapa de Corzo. It is closely related to the Mangue language spoken further to the south in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

The 1990 census ^[2] reported 17 speakers of the language in southern Chiapas out of an ethnic population of 32, but later investigations failed to find any speakers. ^[3] There are, however, a number of written sources on the language. Vocabularies and grammars based on these materials include Aguilar Penagos (2012) and Carpio-Penagos and Álvarez-Vázquez (2014).

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal		Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ		k	ʔ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd			ᵑɡ
Fricative			s	ʃ			h
Nasal		m	n	ɲ̊	ɲ
Flap			ɾ
Glide		w	l	j

Vowels

Four vowels are noted as /i, a, o, u/.

Notes

1. Chiapanec at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Ethnologue report for language code:cip
3. LISTSERV 14.4 Archived October 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

• Aguilar Panagos, Mario. (1992) "Diccionario de la lengua chiapaneca". México: Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas.
• Aguilar Penagos, Mario. (2012) "Gramática de la lengua chiapaneca". México: FONCA-CONACULTA 21.
• del Carpio-Penagos, Carlos Uriel, and Juan Ramón Álvarez-Vázquez. (2014) "Vocabulary of the Chiapaneca Language from the Late 18th Century."Revista LiminaR. Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos 12.1.