Chinantek languages
| Tsa jujmi, juu 'jmii, fáh, jmii | ||
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| speaker | about 135,000 people | |
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| Official language in | National language in Mexico
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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The Chinantekischen languages (Tsa jujmi, juu 'jmii, FAH, jmii) are a branch of the language family of Oto-Mangue languages . These are indigenous languages in Mexico , spoken by the ethnic Chinese Ancestors .
According to the 2010 census, Chinantekisch is spoken by around 135,000 people, particularly in the north of the state of Oaxaca and a small number in Veracruz . Due to the geographical fragmentation of the language area, there are widely differing regional variants. SIL International divides Chinantekische into 14 individual languages.
Like other Otomangue languages, Chinantek is a tonal language .
literature
- Christine Foris (1978): Verbs of motion in Sochiapan Chinantec. Anthropological Linguistics 20, 353-58.
- David Paul Foris (2000): A grammar of Sochiapan Chinantec: studies in Chinantec languages 6. SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 135. Dallas: SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington. xiii, 407 p.
- David Foris (1993): Sochiapan Chinantec grammar . (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Auckland, New Zealand.)
- David Foris (1980): The Sochiapan Chinantec noun phrase. SIL Mexico Workpapers 3, 47-76.
- David Foris (1973): Sochiapan Chinantec syllable structure. International Journal of American Linguistics 39, 232-35.