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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

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  • 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

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Notes

References

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