Chinatec
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The Chinantecs are an indigenous people that lives in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, especially in the districts of Cuicatlán, Ixtlán de Juarez, Tuxtepec and Choapan. Some Chinantecs are still very traditional: they often wear traditional clothing and practice traditional crafts such as weaving, and they generally live from subsistence farming and small-scale trade.
The Chinantec languages belong to the Chinantecan branch of the Oto-Manguean family. The Ethnologue lists 14 different partially unintelligible varieties of Chinantec.
Tone
Chinantec is a tonal language and some dialects (Usila Chinantec) have five register tones, an uncommon trait in the world's languages.
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the tonal system of Usila Chinantec
External links
- The Chinantec language family (SIL-Mexico)
- Sochiapam Chinantec (SIL-Mexico)
- A whistled conversation in Sochiapam Chinantec (SIL-Mexico)
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