Coatzospan Mixtec


Coatzospan Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the town of San Juan Coatzospan.

Phonology

Consonants in parentheses are marginal:
mnɲ
tkkʷ
nd
tstʲ ~ tʃ
βð ʃ
l

In women's speech, is realized as before front vowels.
Vowel qualities are. Vowels may be oral or nasal, creaky or modal, long or short: e.g. "to go". is apparently never contrastively nasalized, though it may be phonetically nasalized due to assimilation with a nasal vowel in a following syllable, and morphologically nasalized for the second-person familiar. The preceding vowel nasalizes only if the intervening consonant is voiced, or in some words. Nonetheless, even voiceless fricatives and affricates are phonetically nasalized in such environments: ; the nasalization is visible in the flaring of the nostrils.
The first vowel of a disyllable is creaky if the second consonant is voiceless ; only when C2 is voiced or can there be a contrast between creaky and modal vowels in V1. The irregular behavior is apparently due to it deriving from proto-Mixtec from both voiceless velar and voiced . It is words in which derives from *j that allow V1 to be nasalized or contrastively modally voiced.
Tones are...