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Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec
Variety of Mixtec language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec, or simply Nieves Mixtec, is a variety of Mixtec spoken in the municipality of Ixpantepec Nieves, Oaxaca, Mexico and in San Diego County, California, United States.
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Classification
INALI classifies Nieves Mixtec as part of Upper Western Mixtec (Spanish: mixteco del oeste alto).[3] J. Kathryn Josserand classified it as part of Southern Baja Mixtec.[4] SIL grouped Nieves Mixtec with Silacayoapan Mixtec,[5] and found that speakers of Nieves Mixtec could understand 94% of Silacayoapan Mixtec, 75% of Juxtlahuaca Mixtec, 56% of Mixtepec Mixtec and 46% of Cacaloxtepec Mixtec.[6]
Phonology
Consonants
- The voiceless stops /t tʲ k/ lenite lenite in prosodically weak positions: /t/ becomes [d] or [ð], /tʲ/ becomes [ɾ], and /k/ becomes [ɡ] or [ɣ].[7]
- /x/ may be realized as [h].[8]
- /v/ may be realized as [β] or [β̞].[9]
- /ʒ/ may be realized as [j].[9]
- /ɲ/ may be realized as [j̃] in unstressed syllables.[11]
- Spanish consonants such as /p f b d ɾ r/ are found in loanwords. /r/ is also found in two animal names.[12]
Vowels
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References
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