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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, author. 1974. Chiquihuitlan Mazatec phrases.  Available online

CAPEN, Carole Jamieson, author. 1976. Chiquihuitlán Mazatec verbs.  Available online

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

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

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

CAPEN, Carole Jamieson, compiler. 1996. Diccionario mazateco de Chiquihuitlán, Oaxaca.

GUDSCHINSKY, Sarah Caroline, author. 1956. Proto-Mazatec structure.

JAMIESON, Allan R., author. 1977. "Chiquihuitlán Mazatec phonology."  Available online

JAMIESON, Allan R., author. 1977. "Chiquihuitlan Mazatec tone."  Available online

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

JAMIESON, Allan R., author. 1984. The unproductiveness of Chiquihuitlan Mazatec word-forming processes.  Available online

JAMIESON, Allan R.; TEJEDA, Ernesto, compilers. 1978. Mazateco: Chiquihuitlán, Oaxaca.

MERRIFIELD, William R., editor. 1977. Studies in Otomanguean phonology.  Available online

Vernacular Publications

Cartilla 1, 2, 3 en el idioma mazateco de Chiquihuitlán de Juárez. 1971.  Available online

Cartilla 4 en el idioma mazateco de Chiquihuitlán de Juárez. 1972.  Available online

Chutahayaan sa cuentu tsëhë hne 2. 1979.  Available online

Chutayaan letra rë hne naja 1. 1979.  Available online

Cjua vihi ne tse̱he̱ yo xi meje re̱ cuma re̱ xųjų 1. 1972.  Available online

Cjua vihi ne tse̱he̱ yo xi meje re̱ cuma re̱ xųjų II. 1972.  Available online

Há ngayuų xi na naha yų. 1974.  Available online

Hacutjį sęhęndąją xi chine. 1975.  Available online

Libru rʌ chu. 1968.  Available online

Ma naja xųjų. 1971.  Available online

Nangui naja 1: Ngu jo xcusun rë nangui naja cojo ngu jo cuentu. 1985.  Available online

Nangui naja 2: Ngu jo xcusun rë nangui naja cojo cuentu tsëhë hacutjin casuañihi rë nangui naja. 1985.  Available online

Ngu cuentu tsëhë naxi chini. 1994.  Available online