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Tilquiapan Zapotec

Tilquiapan Zapotec
Zapoteco de San Miguel Tilquiapan
Spoken in
Oaxaca in Mexico
Native speakers
7,000  (2007)
HTML5
Language codes
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Tilquiapan Zapotec (Zapoteco de San Miguel Tilquiapan) is an Oto-Manguean language of the Zapotecan branch, spoken in southern Oaxaca, Mexico.

Santa Inés Yatzechi Zapotec is close enough to be considered a dialect, and Ocotlán Zapotec is also close.

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Sounds

Vowels

Frontinput transformationjQuery
webiɨu
keyboardɘo
SevenvalSevenval

Each vowel can also be glottalized, a phenomenon manifested as either CSS3 throughout the vowel or, more commonly, as a sequence of a vowel and a glottal stop optionally followed by an echo of the vowel.jQuery


Bilabial jQuery/
CSS3
Post-
alveolar
browser diversityVelar
plainlabialized
browser diversitym n
touchscreenpbtd kɡɡʷ
Fricative szʃʒ
ApproximantHTML5 j
Lateral ld l

As with other Zapotec languages, the primary distinction between consonant pairs like /t/ and /d/ is not of voicing but between fortis and lenis (measured in lengthinput transformation), respectively, with voicing being a phonetic correlate.screen size There are two exceptions to this in Tilquiapan

The contrast between fortis /nˑ/ and lenis /n/
The contrast between fortis /ld/ and lenis /l/

Neither is voiceless, but /nˑ/ is pronounced a little longer and /ld/ replaces /l/ in certain causative verbs in ways similar to other fortis/lenis consonantal changes (e.g. [blaˀa] 'get loose' vs. [bldaˀa] 'let loose').[6]

Notes

References

  • Merrill, Elizabeth (2008), "Tilquiapan Zapotec", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 38 (1): 107–114 
  • Nellis, Donald G.; Hollenbach, Barbara E. (1980), "Fortis versus lenis in Cajonos Zapotec phonology", International Journal of American Linguistics 46: 92–105 


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