Chinantec

Chinantec

Infobox Language
name=Chinantec
nativename=Tsa Jujmi
states=Mexico
region=Oaxaca
speakers=approx. 93,000 (Ethnologue)
familycolor=American
fam1=Oto-Mangue
fam2=Chinantecan

The Chinantecs are an indigenous people that lives in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, especially in the districts of Cuicatlán, Ixtlán de Juarez, Tuxtepec and Choapan. Some Chinantecs are still very traditional: they often wear traditional clothing and practice traditional crafts such as weaving, and they generally live from subsistence farming and small-scale trade.

The Chinantec languages belong to the Chinantecan branch of the Oto-Manguean family. The Ethnologue lists 14 different partially unintelligible varieties of Chinantec.

Language varieties

Tone

Chinantec is a tonal language and some dialects (Usila Chinantec) have five register tones, an uncommon trait in the world's languages.

Media

Chinantec-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio stations XEOJN, broadcasting from San Lucas Ojitlán, Oaxaca, and XEGLO, broadcasting from Guelatao de Juárez, Oaxaca.

External links

* The Chinantec language family [http://www.sil.org/mexico/chinanteca/00i-chinanteca.htm (SIL-Mexico)]
* [http://www.sil.org/mexico/chinanteca/sochiapam/00i-ChinantecoSochiapam-cso.htm Sochiapam Chinantec (SIL-Mexico)]
* A whistled conversation in [http://www.sil.org/mexico/chinanteca/sochiapam/13i-Conversacion-cso.htm Sochiapam Chinantec (SIL-Mexico)]


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