Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec

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.

Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec
Tu̱ʼun ndáʼví[1][2]
Pronunciation	[ˌtṵ̃˩ũ˧ˈⁿdaʔ˥vi˥][2]
Region	Ixpantepec Nieves, Oaxaca, Mexico and San Diego County, California, United States
Ethnicity	Mixtecs
Language family	Oto-Manguean Mixtecan Mixtec Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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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

[7]		Labial	Coronal			Dorsal
			Apico- alveolar	Lamino- alveolar	Post- alveolar		Labialized
Voiceless	Stop		t	tʲ	tʃ	k	kʷ
	Continuant		s		ʃ	x
Voiced	Stop	(ᵐb)	ⁿd	ⁿdʲ		(ᵑɡ)
	Continuant	v	l		ʒ
	Nasal	m	n		ɲ

• 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]

• /ᵐb/ and /ᵑɡ/ are found in only a small number of words, including loanwords.^[10]

• /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

[13]	Oral			Nasal
	Front	Central	Back	Front	Central	Back
+High	ii		uu	ĩĩ		ũũ
	i		u	ĩ		ũ
−High	ee	aa	oo	ẽẽ	ãã
	e	a	o		ã