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Midland Mixe

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Midland Mixe
Central Mixe
Native to	Mexico
Region	Northeastern Oaxaca
Native speakers	29,000 (2000–2002)^[1]
Language family	Mixe–Zoque Mixean Mixe Midland Mixe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `mxq` – Juquila `neq` – North Central (Cotzocón, Puxmetecán, Atitlán) `pxm` – Quetzaltepec Mixe (not distinct)
Glottolog	`midl1241`
ELP	Midland Mixe

Midland a.k.a. Central Mixe^[2] is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. According to Wichmann (1995), there are two groups of dialects:

North: Jaltepec, Puxmetecán, Atitlán, Matamoros, Cotzocón
South: Juquila, Cacalotepec

Ethnologue lists Mixistlán as well, but Wichmann counts that as Tlahuitoltepec Mixe.

A new variety of Midland Mixe has been recently documented in the village of San Juan Bosco Chuxnabá in San Miguel Quetzaltepec municipality, Oaxaca by Carmen Jany and other linguists.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Phonology[edit]

Orthography from Jany (2011) is in angle brackets where it differs from IPA.^[6]

Consonants[edit]

Consonants in Chuxnabán Mixe^[6]
	Bilabial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m ⟨m⟩	n̪ ⟨n⟩
Plosive	p ⟨p⟩	t̪ ⟨t⟩		k ⟨k⟩	ʔ ⟨’⟩
Affricate		ts	(tʃ) ⟨ch⟩
Fricative			ʃ ⟨x⟩		h ⟨j⟩
Glide	w		j ⟨y⟩

Spanish loanwords contain eight additional phonemes: /b, d, g, f, s, ɾ, r, l/.^[6]

Vowels[edit]

Vowels in Chuxnabán Mixe^[6]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ ⟨ë⟩	u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

/æ/ ⟨ä⟩, /ø/ ⟨ö⟩, and /ʊ/ ⟨ü⟩ are marginal vowels. [ø] and [ʊ] only occur as allophones of /o/ and /u/, respectively, in palatalized environments, and [æ] sometimes alternates with /a/.^[6]

References[edit]

^ JuquilaatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
North Central (Cotzocón, Puxmetecán, Atitlán)atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Quetzaltepec Mixe (not distinct)atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices

^ Jany, Carmen. "Vowel Length and Phonation Contrasts in Chuxnabán Mixe" (PDF). Research: Department of Linguistics. University of California, Santa Barbara. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 20, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2012.

^ http://nhlrc.ucla.edu/events/conference/1st/papers/The_Chuxnaban_Mixe_Online_Dictionary.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}

^ Jany, Carmen (2010). "Orthography design for Chuxnabán Mixe". Language Documentation & Conservation. 4: 231–253. hdl:10125/4481.