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Mazatec, Chiquihuitlán

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: maq

Population	2,500 (1990 census). 340 monolinguals.
Region	Oaxaca.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 165
Alternate names	Mazateco de San Juan Chiquihuitlán
Dialects	47% intelligibility with Huautla [mau] (most similar), 37% with Ayautla [vmy], 29% with Soyaltepec [vmp], 20% with Ixcatlán [mzi].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Popolocan, Mazatecan
Language development	Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1991.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO (with fronting of S or O for focus); clitics, affixes; tonal. Swidden, peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Capen, Carole Jamieson. 1996. "Chiquihuitlán Mazatec postverbs: the role of extension in incorporation."

Capen, Carole Jamieson. 1996. Diccionario mazateco de Chiquihuitlán, Oaxaca.

Jamieson, Allan R. 1977. "Chiquihuitlán Mazatec phonology."  

Jamieson, Allan R. 1977. "Chiquihuitlan Mazatec tone."  

Jamieson, Allan R. 1977. "El origen del nombre del pueblo de Chiquihuitlán, Oaxaca."

Jamieson, Allan R. 1984. "The unproductiveness of Chiquihuitlan Mazatec word-forming processes."

Jamieson, Allan R. and Ernesto Tejeda, compilers. 1978. Mazateco: Chiquihuitlán, Oaxaca.

Jamieson, Carole. 1974. "Chiquihuitlan Mazatec phrases."

Jamieson, Carole. 1976. "Chiquihuitlán Mazatec verbs."

Jamieson, Carole. 1982. "Conflated subsystems marking person and aspect in Chiquihuitlán Mazatec verbs."

Jamieson, Carole. 1988. Gramática mazateca (mazateco de Chiquihuitlán de Juárez).

Merrifield, William R., editor. 1977. Studies in Otomanguean phonology.