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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Mazatec, Chiquihuitlán

Mazatec, Chiquihuitlán

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3maq

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."  Available online

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

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."  Available online

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

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

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

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.  Available online