Chiapanec language

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Chiapanec
Native to Mexico
Region Chiapas
Ethnicity32 Chiapanec (1990)
Extinct ca. 2000? [1]
Oto-Mangue
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. 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]

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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).

It is closely related to Mangue.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t 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

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