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Chinantec, Quiotepec

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: chq

Population	8,000 (1998). 1,750 monolinguals.
Region	Oaxaca, Ixtlán District: San Juan Quiotepec, Reforma, Maninaltepec, San Pedro Yolox, Rosario Temextitlán; Oaxaca, Etla District: San Juan Bautista Atatlah.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 182
Alternate names	Highland Chinantec
Dialects	Yolox Chinanteco. 87% intelligibility with Comaltepec [cco] (most similar, less similar in outlying areas), 7% with Tepetotutla [cnt]. The highland Chinantec languages share a complexity of vowel length and tone extensions that Tepetotutla [cnt] and Palantla [cpa] do not have.
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Chinantecan
Language development	NT: 1983.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; short words, affixes; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CAPEN, Carole Jamieson; GARDNER, Richard, authors. 1976. Another look at noun possession in Quiotepec Chinantec.  

FORD, Stanley L., author. 1945. "Triunfo en el fracaso."

FORD, Stanley L., author. 1948. "The Chinantec tribe: Yolox, Ixtlán de Juárez, and Oaxaca regions (with Spanish version, Informe sobre la tribu chinanteca: Región de Yólox, Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca)."

GARDNER, Richard, author. 1970. "Three Chinantec stories from Quiotepec, Oaxaca (The skinny dog and the coyote; About two men; Ignacio and the skunk)."

GARDNER, Richard; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1990. "Quiotepec Chinantec tone."  

ROBBINS, Frank E., author. 1961. "Palabras nasales sin vocales fonéticas en el chinanteco de Quiotepec."

ROBBINS, Frank E., author. 1961. "Quiotepec Chinantec syllable patterning."

ROBBINS, Frank E., author. 1965. Quiotepec Chinantec grammar.

ROBBINS, Frank E., author. 1968. Quiotepec Chinantec grammar.

ROBBINS, Frank E., author. 1975. "Nasal words without phonetic vowels in Quiotepec Chinantec."

ROBBINS, Frank E., researcher. 2012. Nasal Words in Quiotepec Chinantec [chq].  

Vernacular Publications

Bertoldo. 2012.  

Chinanteco I Yolox. 1946.  

Cwaaín¹² Tya'¹ Jmi³. 2012.  

La²wa Jaain²¹ Cwa²nuu²¹ Coon'¹³ Je'¹. 1972.  

La²wa² Jaain²¹ Tsii²¹ Jɨɨ'¹³. 2012.