Isthmus Mixe

Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995),^[2] is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán, Guichicovi, and Camotlán, Oaxaca.

Isthmus Mixe
Lowland Mixe
Native to	Mexico
Region	Northeastern Oaxaca
Native speakers	(45,000 cited 1990–2000)[1]
Language family	Mixe–Zoque Mixean Mixe Isthmus Mixe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: mco – Coatlán, Camotlán mir – Guichicovi mzl – Mazatlán
Glottolog	lowl1263
ELP	Lowland Mixe

Grammar

Isthmus Mixe is SOV word order.^[3] It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head.^[4] Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating.^[4]

Phonology

Consonants of Isthmus Mixe^[4]

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p	t		k	ʔ
Affricate		t͡s
Fricative			ʃ		h
Glide	w		j

Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization.^[4]

Vowels of Isthmus Mixe

	Front (unrounded)	Central (unrounded)	Back (rounded)
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

See also

• Norman Nordell's Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary (1990) published by SIL